Yerbamate
Villoresi's Yerbamate opens with a cool rush of mint and tarragon, tempered by ylang-ylang's faint floral sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Green95
- Oakmoss80
- Vetiver70
- Lavender65
- Patchouli60
By the editors · 2 min readVilloresi's Yerbamate opens with a cool rush of mint and tarragon, tempered by ylang-ylang's faint floral sweetness. The effect is bracingly green but not sharp—more garden than medicine cabinet. The grass accord runs through every stage, tethering the composition to something verdant and alive.
As it settles, lavender emerges with herbal clarity, extending the aromatic thread rather than sweetening it. The base gradually reveals itself as earthy and deliberate: oakmoss and vetiver anchor the greenness, while patchouli adds weight without turning the scent dark. Galbanum lends a resinous bitterness that keeps everything from feeling too polite.
This is green fragrance for those who find most lawn-fresh scents too literal or too clean. It has an almost meditative quality—steady, grounded, uninterested in decoration. Best suited to those who prefer their aromatics dry rather than dewy.