Mythique Vetyver
Vetiver dominates from the first spray, its dry grass and mineral facets sharpened by lemon and bergamot that flash quickly, leaving the root to stand alone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
- Papyrus
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Lemon
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readVetiver dominates from the first spray, its dry grass and mineral facets sharpened by lemon and bergamot that flash quickly, leaving the root to stand alone. Labdanum arrives early, a waxy amber resin that softens the vetiver’s edges while papyrus paper adds a faintly smoky, cardboard dryness underneath. Patchouli fills the base with cool, chocolate earth, anchoring the composition so the vetiver never turns creamy or sweet. Over an hour the citrus disappears entirely and the scent becomes a taut interplay of dry grass, resin dust and cool soil, projecting close but steady. It wears like a crisp linen shirt: understated, clean, rigorously woody. Office-safe in any season yet richest when cool air lets the smoky papyrus and labdanum linger.
Scent twins
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