Grey Vetiver Parfum
Grey Vetiver Parfum opens with orange blossom and grapefruit, bright and slightly honeyed before saffron steps in with its metallic, almost leathery edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Mossy55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Saffron
- Oakmoss
- Guaiac Wood
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Grapefruit
- Nutmeg
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readGrey Vetiver Parfum opens with orange blossom and grapefruit, bright and slightly honeyed before saffron steps in with its metallic, almost leathery edge. Pink pepper adds a dry crackle that keeps the opening from reading as purely floral.
Through the heart, saffron deepens alongside clary sage and nutmeg — herbal, resinous, and faintly waxy. Guaiac wood and oakmoss anchor everything in a grey, slightly damp earthiness that lives up to the name. The vetiver character comes more from texture than any single note: dry, rooty, cool.
Overall this reads as an aromatic fougère-adjacent composition — structured, cool-weather appropriate, and more austere than sweet.
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.
