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.
- Aromatic70
- Citrus70
- Green60
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Basil
- Lime
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Amberwood
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readMr. Vetiver opens with a sharp herbal-citrus charge — tarragon and basil cut through lime and grapefruit, cardamom adding a dry lift without sweetness. The combination reads brisk and slightly medicinal in the best sense, like a garden after rain.
As the citrus burns off, vetiver takes the lead: earthy, smoky, and rooted. Amberwood adds a resinous warmth that keeps the drydown from feeling cold, while moss reinforces the damp-earth quality already suggested by the vetiver.
The result is a clean, unfussy aromatic-woody that wears close to the skin. It suits someone who wants green complexity without florals or sweetness pulling it off course.
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.
