Hiver Caniculaire
Ginger and orange open with a bright, fresh-spicy sparkle that quickly melds into a smoky incense veil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Nutty60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Incense
- Orange
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Almond
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and orange open with a bright, fresh-spicy sparkle that quickly melds into a smoky incense veil. Lavender and jasmine provide an aromatic floral core, softened by a distinct almond creaminess that adds a nutty texture. Labdanum and cedar build a warm, resinous woody foundation that deepens over time. Vanilla and tonka bean introduce a sweet, ambery richness in the dry-down, while patchouli lends an earthy grounding and musk a soft skin-hugging trail. Projection starts moderately but settles close within three hours, offering good longevity for cool evening wear. The composition evolves from spicy-citrus to a warm, sweet-woody ambery 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.
