Attraction Sensation
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the gingerbread heat of fresh ginger while plum adds a dark, jammy sweetness that keeps the spices from turning harsh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Plum
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the gingerbread heat of fresh ginger while plum adds a dark, jammy sweetness that keeps the spices from turning harsh. Lavender arrives early, its cool herbal edge slicing through the fruit to carve out aromatic space where jasmine and freesia can bloom softly without going lush; clary sage reinforces the lavender’s metallic facet, keeping the heart crisp rather than floral-sweet. Leather lands fast, a matte hide that pulls the spices into a suede-smoke accord, then vetiver’s rooty bitterness and patchouli’s chocolate earth tamp everything down into a low, woody hum that sits close to skin. Projection stays office-polite for five hours, leaning masculine-leaning but versatile enough for daytime fall through spring wear.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
