Ginger Rose
Ginger Rose begins with ginger and pink pepper over bergamot and clary sage — a spiced, slightly herbal opening with enough citrus brightness to keep it from feeling heavy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Balsamic90
- Amber80
- Floral80
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Aldehydes
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Bulgarian Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGinger Rose begins with ginger and pink pepper over bergamot and clary sage — a spiced, slightly herbal opening with enough citrus brightness to keep it from feeling heavy. Orange blossom adds a soft floral thread that bridges top and heart seamlessly.
The heart is lush and multi-layered: Bulgarian rose sits at the center, supported by jasmine, ylang-ylang, heliotrope, and lily of the valley. The combination reads as a full, warm floral rather than a single-note statement, with the heliotrope lending a faint powdery-almond quality.
Frankincense, myrrh, benzoin, and amber build a deep, resinous base that gives the fragrance considerable staying power. Orris and tonka add creaminess and softness beneath the incense, creating a rich, balsamic finish.
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.
