Vetiver Insolent
A pepper-forward open — black pepper and cardamom carrying the volume, bergamot threading underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Earthy70
- Warm Spicy65
- Sweet55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Amber
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readA pepper-forward open — black pepper and cardamom carrying the volume, bergamot threading underneath. The spice reads dry rather than warming, with a slight buzz that keeps the top alert.
The heart is unusual: lavender alongside amber and iris. Lavender gives the composition a clean barbershop edge, iris cools it, and amber begins the bridge to the base. Together they read polished but slightly aloof.
Vetiver dominates the drydown — smoky, rooty, tied down by tonka bean and oakmoss. The result is a refined unisex profile, suited to evening and cooler-weather formal wear, with enough quietness to also work for the office.
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.
