L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Vetiver
L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Vétiver strips the maison's aquatic signature down to a handful of materials.
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.
- Earthy85
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Watery Notes
- Vetiver
- Calone
- Clary Sage
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readL'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Vétiver strips the maison's aquatic signature down to a handful of materials. Ginger crackles in the opening against a faint marine accord, lending clarity and brief lift before yielding to the composition's true subject: Haitian vétiver. The grass is handled cleanly — earthy without the barnyard edge that rougher expressions carry.
Clary sage blurs the boundary between vétiver and a warm sandalwood finish, the whole thing settling into something muted and skin-close. Few flourishes, no detours. It suits someone who wants to smell assembled but not perfumed — an exercise in restraint that wears quickly and rewards close proximity.
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.
