Vétiver
Sea salt and lemon open with a briny, slightly aquatic freshness — saline rather than sharp, with the lemon adding just enough brightness to keep it from feeling flat.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Sea Salt
- Vetiver
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readSea salt and lemon open with a briny, slightly aquatic freshness — saline rather than sharp, with the lemon adding just enough brightness to keep it from feeling flat. The opening has a beach-air quality that doesn't tip into marine cliché.
Vetiver dominates the heart: dry, smoky, and rooty, with a slight earthiness that grounds everything. The salty character from the top lingers alongside it rather than disappearing entirely. Tonka bean softens the vetiver's rougher edges with a hint of warmth.
Sandalwood and tobacco in the base add depth and a quiet smokiness. This is a dry, contemplative fragrance — salty-woody rather than sweet, with real textural contrast between the crisp opening and the earthy drydown.
Scent twins
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