Vert des Bois
Vert des Bois opens with an unexpected pairing: tart plum skin and cool anise, neither sweet nor cloying, but oddly mineral and green.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Patchouli75
- Tonka65
- Jasmine50
- Oakmoss45
By the editors · 2 min readVert des Bois opens with an unexpected pairing: tart plum skin and cool anise, neither sweet nor cloying, but oddly mineral and green. The effect is less fruity than photographic—a snapshot of purple-grey light filtering through dense foliage. The jasmine that follows is muted, almost mossy, as though pressed between pages rather than blooming in full sun.
What emerges in the dry down is a soft, earthy sweetness—tonka bean tempered by patchouli that leans more toward forest floor than incense. The composition never brightens or projects loudly. Instead, it settles close to the skin, woody and slightly bitter, with that original anise thread still detectable hours later.
This is Tom Ford at his most restrained. It suits people who prefer their florals shadowed, their woods unpolished, and their perfumes cryptic rather than declarative.
