Véga
Véga is a between-wars Guerlain in the white-floral oriental tradition — a structure the house repeated several times across the era.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Woody70
- Floral70
- Vanilla60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readVéga is a between-wars Guerlain in the white-floral oriental tradition — a structure the house repeated several times across the era. Bergamot opens it briefly, but the piece is heart-and-base.
Jasmine and ylang-ylang carry the floral mass, with iris adding a cool powdered counterweight and rose softening the edges. There is no fresh phase to speak of; the composition arrives plush. The base is the guerlinade in long form — sandalwood, vanilla, vetiver pulled through the floral mass — with amber tying everything into a single warm impression.
Dense, slow-moving, and worn close. Cool weather, evening, formal contexts.
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.
