Black Vetiver
Black Vetiver opens with cardamom and bergamot — a spiced citrus combination that reads warm and dry rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky90
- Amber70
- Earthy70
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Frankincense
- Vetiver
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Vetiver opens with cardamom and bergamot — a spiced citrus combination that reads warm and dry rather than sweet. The cardamom is the more prominent of the two, establishing the composition's spice-forward character immediately.
Frankincense in the heart deepens the resinous quality started by cardamom, adding smoky, balsamic depth. The vetiver in the base is the other defining note — earthy and smoky, extending and reinforcing the frankincense's character. Amber rounds the drydown with warmth, musk provides diffusion. The smoky accord prior peaks here, confirming that smoke and earth are the composition's twin anchors. A deliberately dark, dry fragrance with genuine depth — suited to evening wear and cold-weather contexts.
Scent twins
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