Vetiver (Vintage Edition)
Guerlain Vétiver is one of those fragrances that has been in continuous production since Eisenhower's second term, and it smells exactly as authoritative as that suggests.
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.
- Earthy90
- Aromatic50
- Tobacco50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Vetiver
- Tobacco
- Pepper
- Tobacco
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readGuerlain Vétiver is one of those fragrances that has been in continuous production since Eisenhower's second term, and it smells exactly as authoritative as that suggests. The lemon top note is brief — a flash of brightness before the vetiver takes over completely. And it does take over: dry, earthy, slightly smoky, with a tobacco undercurrent that deepens rather than sweetens.
Nutmeg and pepper sharpen the drydown into something almost austere, a cool mineral quality that reads different on every skin. This is not a fragrance of moments; it's a fragrance of decades. Best worn by someone who has stopped caring what year it is.
Scent twins
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