Itasca Le Vetiver - Itasca
Neroli and grapefruit open bright but already slightly bitter, the grapefruit zesty and pithy, the neroli adding a faintly waxy floral lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Woody70
- Smoky70
- Warm Spicy60
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Grapefruit
- Tonka Bean
- Clove
- Nutmeg
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and grapefruit open bright but already slightly bitter, the grapefruit zesty and pithy, the neroli adding a faintly waxy floral lift. The freshness is brief.
The heart pivots into spice — clove and nutmeg over clary sage, with tonka rounding the edges into something warm and slightly sweet. Clary sage threads herbal-balsamic through the spices, giving the heart a contemplative, almost ecclesiastical mood. Then myrrh and frankincense unfurl, dry and resinous, lifting the perfume into smoke. Amber and cedar provide the woody bed underneath. Projection is moderate, the texture is dense and slightly powdery, with a smoky resin shimmer that persists.
The drydown is incense-amber over warm cedar, with lingering clove warmth. Solemn, balsamic, more chapel than party.
Scent twins
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