Jatamansi
Jatamansi takes its name from the Himalayan grass also known as spikenard — a cousin of valerian with a darker, more musk-adjacent character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
- Patchouli60
- Rose35
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readJatamansi takes its name from the Himalayan grass also known as spikenard — a cousin of valerian with a darker, more musk-adjacent character. The composition is built around it: clary sage, grapefruit, cardamom and bergamot give a green-bitter opening, cool and slightly medicinal.
The heart introduces ylang-ylang and rose, but quietly — the spikenard itself is doing most of the work, dry and slightly resinous. The drydown is a forest of woods: sandalwood, guaiac, vetiver, papyrus, frankincense, patchouli, all kept transparent rather than dense.
It reads as meditative. Worn close to the skin, it's almost a personal incense.
Scent twins
In this family
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