Vetiver
An incense-and-grapefruit opening — bitter, smoky-citric, with frankincense and neroli adding lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Earthy85
- Smoky70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Neroli
- Frankincense
- Grapefruit
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Peony
By the editors · 2 min readAn incense-and-grapefruit opening — bitter, smoky-citric, with frankincense and neroli adding lift. There's a churchy quality from the start, but kept cool by the citrus.
The heart turns more solemn: a dry vetiver braided with leather, cushioned slightly by peony so it doesn't go full austere. The composition reads serious, almost ceremonial, more about texture than sweetness.
Benzoin warms the base into a soft resinous cling, and musk extends the dry-down without sweetening it. Wears best in cool weather, evenings, anyone who wants a vetiver that leans incense-resinous rather than the classic green-dirt direction.
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.
