Vetyver And Whiskey
Vetyver And Whiskey opens with rum — not the sweet cocktail version but something drier, more alcoholic, with woody edge.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Vetiver
- Myrrh
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readVetyver And Whiskey opens with rum — not the sweet cocktail version but something drier, more alcoholic, with woody edge. This sets a boozy, slightly dark tone that frames the whole composition.
Vetiver anchors the base with its characteristic smoky, earthy-woody dryness — one of the most identifiable raw materials in perfumery, here likely playing a starring role given the name. Myrrh adds a resinous, incense-like depth while vanilla introduces a soft sweetness that rounds the otherwise dry, smoky structure.
The result is a dark, smoky aromatic: rum and vetiver share the spotlight, with myrrh adding balsamic complexity and vanilla preventing the composition from going entirely austere. Masculine in posture, deliberate in character — likely best in cool-weather evening contexts.
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.




