07 Vetiver Dance
Opens with a peppery grapefruit snap brightened further by clary sage — herbal, citric and sharply lifted, an aromatic top with real bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Balsamic55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Clary Sage
- Bulgarian Rose
- Vetiver
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a peppery grapefruit snap brightened further by clary sage — herbal, citric and sharply lifted, an aromatic top with real bite.
The heart introduces a quiet Bulgarian rose alongside lily of the valley, the florals pushing through a ribbon of vetiver that grows steadily greener and more vegetal as the minutes pass. Vetiver eventually takes over completely, smoky-rooted and earth-damp, with cedar lending a dry vertical structure beside it. Tonka bean and labdanum settle the drydown into a balsamic warmth that keeps the vetiver from going austere, ambergris adding a salty animal sheen. Texture is rough-grained and resinous, projection is strong for hours, the temperature reads warm with a cool herbal edge. It evokes wet roots pulled from sun-warmed earth.
Overall a vetiver-forward composition with a balsamic, faintly leathery body.
Scent twins
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