Vetyver
Vetiver opens with a cool violet-leaf crunch sharpened by black pepper and bergamot, creating a green, slightly metallic breeze that feels like crushed stems.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Lavender60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Petitgrain
- Sage
- Tarragon
By the editors · 2 min readVetiver opens with a cool violet-leaf crunch sharpened by black pepper and bergamot, creating a green, slightly metallic breeze that feels like crushed stems. The heart layers petitgrain, lavender and twin sages over that leafy spine, turning the scent drier and more aromatic while tarragon injects a faint anise lift that keeps the texture airy. As skin warms, vetiver and cedar assert their earthy split: the root smolders with nutty smoke, cedar adds clean pencil-shaving wood, and tonka folds in a soft almond sweetness that blunts any harsh edges. Musk lingers close to the body, so projection stays polite, making it an easy daily signature for temperate spring and fall.
Scent twins
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