Vetiver Roja Parfums 2016 Eau de Parfum
A direct vetiver portrait, opened with lemon and bergamot and brushed past a single touch of May rose.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Earthy85
- Mossy55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Labdanum
- May Rose
- Oakmoss
- Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readA direct vetiver portrait, opened with lemon and bergamot and brushed past a single touch of May rose. The flower is a transition only — within ten minutes the scent is squarely about the root.
Vetiver here is rendered earthy and slightly green, with oakmoss reinforcing the mossy edge and galbanum sharpening the opening with a bitter herbal cut. Pink pepper and nutmeg add a small spicy lift; labdanum supplies a thin amber underneath that softens the close without sweetening it. The overall shape is dry, classical, and more masculine-leaning than gendered. It wears well across seasons but performs best in mild weather where the green topnotes hold legibility.
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.
