Vetyver
Grapefruit opens with a tartness that reads almost saline — slightly mineral rather than sweet, pointing toward something earthy ahead.
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.
- Earthy85
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Labdanum
- Nutmeg
- Patchouli
- Clary Sage
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a tartness that reads almost saline — slightly mineral rather than sweet, pointing toward something earthy ahead. Labdanum and nutmeg arrive in the heart, the resinous warmth of labdanum balanced by nutmeg's dry spice. Ginger and mint add a cool, slightly medicinal undercurrent; clary sage brings a herbal sweetness that plays against the earthier elements.
Vetiver is the spine throughout: dry, rooty, smoky, with the soil-and-pencil-shaving quality that defines the ingredient. Patchouli and tonka add depth without softening. A serious vetiver interpretation — textured and slightly austere.
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.
