Vetiver Veritas
Vetiver Veritas opens with a brisk pairing of mint and lavender — clean and slightly medicinal, with the mint carrying more presence than the lavender.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic75
- Earthy70
- Lavender65
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lavender
- Grapefruit
- Leather
- Mint
- Vetiver
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readVetiver Veritas opens with a brisk pairing of mint and lavender — clean and slightly medicinal, with the mint carrying more presence than the lavender. The grapefruit underscores both, adding a faint bitter citrus edge rather than sweetness.
As the fragrance develops, vetiver rises into prominence — dry, rooty, and slightly smoky, anchoring what could otherwise feel like a barbershop composition. The leather note adds a subdued animalic tension, keeping things from reading as purely fresh-aromatic.
The overall character is austere and linear: earthy vetiver with cool herbs layered on top. It wears close to the skin and rewards proximity more than projection.
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.
