Água de Vetiver
Seaweed and lemon meet first, a saline-green flash edged by bitter sage that reads as cool ocean wind over sun-warmed driftwood.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Green60
- Herbal50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Seaweed
- Sage
- Lemon
- Magnolia
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSeaweed and lemon meet first, a saline-green flash edged by bitter sage that reads as cool ocean wind over sun-warmed driftwood. The heart swaps brine for soft magnolia water sprinkled with lily-of-the-valley dew; rose adds a faintly sweet pollen haze that keeps the composition from turning ozonic shampoo. Vetiver arrives early, threading earthy root through the flowers, then cedar stiffens the spine while tonka pours a thin layer of toasted almond cream that lingers on skin. Dry-down is clean, salty woods with a faint tobacco-like hum, projecting an arm’s-length breeze for six hours before settling into a skin-close linen scent. Spring shoreline walks, white shirts, ferry rides.
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.
