Vetyver (2003)
The opening is bright and citrus-forward — lime and bergamot over lemon, clean and brisk without being austere.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is bright and citrus-forward — lime and bergamot over lemon, clean and brisk without being austere. Nutmeg surfaces quickly in the heart, adding a gentle warmth that takes the edge off the citrus sharpness.
Jasmine provides a faint floral backbone in the middle phase, though it stays restrained, serving more as texture than fragrance centre. The transition to the base is gradual.
Vetiver anchors the dry-down, earthy and slightly smoky, supported by sandalwood and cedar. Amber adds a quiet warmth that prevents the vetiver from reading too austere. The finish is woody and grounded, with the citrus now a distant memory. A versatile, office-appropriate vetiver composition with moderate projection.
Scent twins
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