Birch
Ginger snaps first, bright and effervescent, slicing through a cool bergamot that keeps the opening brisk rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Powdery50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Guaiac Wood
- Pink Pepper
- Patchouli
- Bergamot
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps first, bright and effervescent, slicing through a cool bergamot that keeps the opening brisk rather than sweet. Pink pepper follows fast, adding a rosy metallic lift the wood already stacking beneath; guaiac’s smoky pencil-shaving facet locks onto patchouli’s cocoa-brown core, creating a dry, resinous timber accord that pushes the spices downward. Over hours the musk expands, softening the smoke and lifting the wood into a clean skin-clone aura. Projection stays polite, radiating an arm’s-length woody haze perfect for cool-weather offices or gallery openings, then settles to skin-scent by dinner.
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.
