The Icon Elixir
Ginger and cardamom open with a dry, spiced warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Lavender
- Sea Salt
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and cardamom open with a dry, spiced warmth. The spices are immediate but not aggressive — leaning fresh rather than heavy, suggesting cool air rather than a market stall.
Lavender emerges in the heart with a clean, slightly herbal quality, while sea salt cuts across it with a saline edge that shifts the whole composition toward something coastal and breezy. The two notes work against each other in an interesting way, neither fully winning.
Musk closes things out quietly. The base is thin and airy rather than deep or lasting. The overall character is a salty aromatic with spiced top notes — light, fresh-leaning, suited to warm weather.
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.
