Vetyver
Grapefruit and neroli spark a bright citric flash chased by a puff of church incense that drags the opening into greyer skies.
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.
- Smoky60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Neroli
- Grapefruit
- Leather
- Peony
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and neroli spark a bright citric flash chased by a puff of church incense that drags the opening into greyer skies. Leather lands early, its tanned hide already warmed by the benzoin beneath, while a muted peony offers a soft floral counter that never fights the dominant smoky-woody axis. Vetiver takes over within an hour, dry grass and root smoke braided with the lingering benzoin resin to create a bittersweet, slightly tarry glow. Musk sheathes the base in quiet skin warmth, letting the earthy leather smolder close rather than shout. Projection stays polite, extending an arm’s length for four hours before folding into a personal woody haze that favors collar lines and autumn scarves.
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.
