Grass Oil
Bergamot opens alone and briefly, providing a citrus entry before the composition moves toward its earthy character.
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.
- Earthy80
- Mossy70
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Galbanum
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens alone and briefly, providing a citrus entry before the composition moves toward its earthy character. The transition is relatively fast.
The base drives the whole composition: vetiver, galbanum, and musk. Galbanum is deeply green and slightly bitter; vetiver is smoky and earthy. Together they produce a dry, mossy-green accord with significant character. Note prior confirms earthy, aldehydic, mossy, and green as the dominant accord signals.
This is a stripped-down green chypre — minimal, austere, and resolutely old-school in its reliance on mossy-vetiver materials. It wears close to skin. Well suited to those who prefer a nature-forward, non-sweet fragrance, particularly in cooler months.
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.
