Mate Green (Mate Verde)
A single note of bergamot opens this quietly, more restraint than announcement.
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.
- Mossy60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Guaiac Wood
- Lily of the Valley
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readA single note of bergamot opens this quietly, more restraint than announcement. The heart introduces guaiac wood alongside lily of the valley and violet — an unusual pairing that keeps things grounded rather than airy, the woody smoke of guaiac preventing the florals from going sweet.
The base reveals what the fragrance is about: moss, vetiver, patchouli, and amber form a dense chypre foundation with genuine earthiness. Tonka and musk keep it from becoming austere. Mate Verde was presumably named for the South American herbal tea, though no explicit mate note is present — what's here is the greenish, woody, slightly smoky character that the name implies.
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.
