V/S Versus
V/S Versus opens like a cocktail garnish — lime, orange, and mandarin pinned together over a single warm cinnamon spike.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Citrus80
- Cinnamon60
- Warm Spicy60
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Orange
- Mandarin Orange
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Carnation
By the editors · 2 min readV/S Versus opens like a cocktail garnish — lime, orange, and mandarin pinned together over a single warm cinnamon spike. The juxtaposition is unusual: bright citrus rarely sits this comfortably against bark-spice, but Jean-Pierre Bethouart finds the seam.
In the heart, carnation and lily-of-the-valley do most of the work — a clean, almost soapy floral that lets the cinnamon stay legible. Jasmine softens the edges. The drydown is restrained: cedar and musk, no gourmand cushion, no animalic finish.
A late-90s women's fragrance that wore well at the office without shouting. Discontinued, occasionally found on resale; smells very much of its specific year.
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.
