Malbec Vert
Malbec Vert opens aggressively spiced—black and pink pepper stacked over lemon and grapefruit, with cardamom lending the citrus a smoky warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Amber60
- Patchouli50
- Lavender30
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Sage
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readMalbec Vert opens aggressively spiced—black and pink pepper stacked over lemon and grapefruit, with cardamom lending the citrus a smoky warmth. Pear softens the bite without going sweet. In the heart, vetiver becomes the central voice: earthy, rooty, and slightly smoky, flanked by violet leaf and neroli for green brightness.
The base deepens the vetiver with sandalwood, amber, labdanum, and patchouli over a mossy foundation that outlasts the peppery opening significantly. Malbec Vert is a masculine spicy-vetiver with green structure and a long resinous drydown. It projects moderately and transitions well across seasons.
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.
