Lush Vetiver
The citrus opening—bergamot and grapefruit—arrives bright and clean, then pulls back quickly as saffron adds a dry, faintly metallic warmth at the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Earthy85
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Saffron
- Vetiver
- Oak
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readThe citrus opening—bergamot and grapefruit—arrives bright and clean, then pulls back quickly as saffron adds a dry, faintly metallic warmth at the heart. The transition is abrupt by design: this is a composition that wants to be vetiver, and the early notes merely clear the path for it.
The base is dense and grounded. Vetiver anchors everything with its grassy-smoky bite; oak and patchouli add earth and depth; tobacco lends a dry, papery edge that keeps any sweetness at bay. The result sits close on skin rather than projecting outward.
Suits cooler weather and anyone who finds most fragrances too sweet or synthetic—a down-to-earth choice without apology.
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.
