Le Vetiver
Le Vetiver starts with a clean citrus burst — grapefruit and orange with a touch of neroli's soapy brightness.
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.
- Balsamic70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Clove
- Nutmeg
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readLe Vetiver starts with a clean citrus burst — grapefruit and orange with a touch of neroli's soapy brightness. The opening is brisk and transparent, pointing toward a Mediterranean or classic masculine structure.
Clove and nutmeg arrive next, warming the composition and adding a dry spice that bridges the citrus top to the resinous base. There's no sweetness here — the spice reads dry throughout.
Vetiver, frankincense, and myrrh anchor the drydown in an earthy, smoky incense register. Cedar adds linear woodiness. The result is aromatic and balsamic, unhurried, and best worn in cool weather. It reads formal without being stiff, and has the kind of measured sillage that works in close quarters.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
