Vaadhoo
Ginger and basil open together with a clean, slightly medicinal sharpness — the ginger warm and root-like, the basil lending a green, anise-adjacent edge.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Basil
- Jasmine
- Moss
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and basil open together with a clean, slightly medicinal sharpness — the ginger warm and root-like, the basil lending a green, anise-adjacent edge. There's momentum here, a forward-leaning quality that doesn't linger on pleasantries.
Jasmine arrives in the heart with some floral weight, though the herbal top softens its sweetness considerably. The transition is relatively smooth, keeping a green current running through the composition.
Moss, vetiver, and patchouli anchor the base in damp, earthy territory. The vetiver adds a smoky dryness while patchouli deepens the soil-like character. The overall effect is an outdoorsy, green-chypre structure — grounded and unhurried, leaning more botanical than perfumed.
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.
