The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Earthy75
- Balsamic55
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Oakmoss
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readVetiver Pour Homme Parfum Cologne opens classically — lemon and bergamot in precise, high-acuity form, the kind of citrus that smells freshly squeezed. Jasmine introduces a floral richness in the heart that might surprise given the fragrance's name, but here it serves as a bridge between the bright citrus and the verdant, earthy base.
Labdanum appears in both heart and base, providing an amber-adjacent resinous warmth that runs through the entire composition. Vetiver is the principal base material, joined by cedar, oakmoss, guaiac wood, and galbanum — a verdant, woodsmoke-adjacent accord. Nutmeg adds a quiet spice. The result is a composed, structured vetiver in the classic tradition: austere but not cold, earthy but not crude.
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.
