Vetiver Bourbon
Lemon and bergamot open with clean brightness, neither sweet nor sharp, just a precise citrus edge that fades quickly into the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Vetiver
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with clean brightness, neither sweet nor sharp, just a precise citrus edge that fades quickly into the heart. Neroli adds a faintly floral waxy quality, while vetiver dominates — rooty, smoky, and dry in its characteristic way, pulling the composition firmly into earthy territory.
Sandalwood in the base smooths vetiver's rougher angles, lending a creamy counterpoint, while oakmoss deepens everything with a cool, damp, forest-floor quality. The result is a classic chypre-adjacent structure: citrus over green-earthy vetiver over mossy wood. Linear in progression, transparent in execution, and distinctly unisex in character.
Scent twins
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