Black Vetyver Cafe
Coffee is the immediate opening — freshly ground, not roasted-bitter, with a citrus thread that keeps it from going too dark too soon.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Earthy70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Citrus
- Coffee
- Black Pepper
- Coriander
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCoffee is the immediate opening — freshly ground, not roasted-bitter, with a citrus thread that keeps it from going too dark too soon. The spice heart of nutmeg, coriander, and pepper expands the composition sideways into territory that feels culinary without being edible.
Vetiver grounds everything in the base with its earthy, smoky signature; sandalwood and incense add warmth, and vanilla provides a soft landing that rounds the fragrance without sweetening it. This is one of Jo Malone's more genuinely complex entries, developing with real character across its dry-down.
Scent twins
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