Vétiver d'Hiver (Vetiver Babylone)
Lemon and bergamot open with a bright, classical citrus prelude — clean and Italian in character, briefly dominant before yielding to the spice beneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Vetiver70
- Cardamom50
- Lemon50
- Bergamot45
- Black Pepper40
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a bright, classical citrus prelude — clean and Italian in character, briefly dominant before yielding to the spice beneath.
Pink pepper and cardamom take the heart with a warm, dry quality — the pepper adding crackle, the cardamom adding depth. The transition from citrus to spice is the fragrance's entire arc, executed with Armani's characteristic precision. Nothing is extraneous.
Vetiver and patchouli form a spare, earthy base that anchors everything without sweetness. A focused study in vetiver-spice architecture from the Privé line — compact, well-tailored, with understated longevity. For someone who finds most vetiver fragrances too diffuse or too sweet.
