Vetiver Royal Bourbon
A herbal opening of peppermint and thyme cuts cleanly, more like a crushed leaf than a candy, and gives way quickly to the heart.
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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.
- Tobacco85
- Leather55
- Woody45
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Peppermint
- Thyme
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
- Tobacco
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readA herbal opening of peppermint and thyme cuts cleanly, more like a crushed leaf than a candy, and gives way quickly to the heart.
Labdanum, iris, and tobacco anchor the centre with a dry, slightly leather-leaf warmth. Sandalwood adds a creamy thread but the dominant impression is of cured tobacco set against a powdery iris.
The base is dense: leather, vetiver, oakmoss, styrax, and more labdanum and tobacco build a smoky, resinous floor that keeps unfolding. Vetiver brings an earthy mineral quality that grounds the resins. The overall character is masculine-coded, vintage-styled, and built for cooler weather, with strong longevity and a presence that holds steadily without ever projecting loudly.
Scent twins
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