Vetiver Essence
Pink pepper and cardamom open warm-spicy and lightly fizzy together, pink pepper adding rosy bite, cardamom giving a green-aromatic lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Vetiver
- Coffee
- Tonka Bean
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and cardamom open warm-spicy and lightly fizzy together, pink pepper adding rosy bite, cardamom giving a green-aromatic lift. The opening reads polished and gender-neutral.
Vetiver and coffee construct an unusual heart — vetiver dry, grassy-earthy, slightly smoky; coffee deep, roasted, slightly bitter. The pairing has bistro-counter character, where the spice opening still threads through. There's no floral cushion to lighten it.
Tonka bean, patchouli, and hazelnut close in a sweet-earthy-nutty register, tonka adding hay-coumarin warmth, hazelnut rounding the coffee into something more dessert-adjacent, patchouli on the cleaner contemporary side. The overall character is a coffee-vetiver gourmand-leaning woody — projects moderately, suits cool-weather casual and evening contexts, leans masculine but wearable across.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
