Ode
Ginger and cumin spark a hot, almost curry-like opening that quickly gathers strawberry’s jammy sweetness and saffron’s hay-leather nuance into a resinous heart.
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.
- Woody80
- Smoky60
- Patchouli60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cumin
- Strawberry
- Saffron
- Frankincense
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and cumin spark a hot, almost curry-like opening that quickly gathers strawberry’s jammy sweetness and saffron’s hay-leather nuance into a resinous heart. Frankincense adds a lemon-peel smoke that lifts the rose, preventing the flower from turning jammy; instead it reads as a dry, peppery bloom dusted with incense. As the base arrives, sandalwood’s creamy lactones cushion oud’s band-aid edge while vetiver sharpens the wood with cool, rooty smoke and patchouli supplies dark chocolate earth. The result is a warm, medicinal-spicy wood accord that stays close yet noticeable for six-to-eight hours, projecting a cumin-tinged skin warmth ideal for cool autumn evenings or layered wool.
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.
