Infinitoud
Vetiver opens raw and rooty, its damp-earth facets immediately joined by myrrh’s cool licorice-bitter resin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Vetiver
- Myrrh
- Black Pepper
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readVetiver opens raw and rooty, its damp-earth facets immediately joined by myrrh’s cool licorice-bitter resin. Black pepper crackles across the heart, drying the accord while cedar splinters add splintered wood grain that keeps patchouli from turning syrupy. The patchouli itself emerges lean, more stem than chocolate, anchoring the incense that slowly billows up from the base, turning the smoke dry and papery rather than church-rich. On skin the pepper fades first, letting vetiver soften to carrot-like sweetness while incense dominates the final hour, projecting a quiet campfire skin scent. Expect moderate longevity, ideal for cool evenings or travel days when you want calm smoke without leather weight.
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.
