Midnight Hour
Ginger snaps open with a dry, papery heat that feels like crushed root rather than candied spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Star Anise
- Pink Pepper
- Leather
- Musk
- Ginger
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a dry, papery heat that feels like crushed root rather than candied spice. Star anise slides in within minutes, its liquorice edge stretching the ginger’s warmth into something cooler and slightly metallic, while pink pepper keeps the heart fizzy and airborne instead of syrupy. Leather arrives early, already tanned and matte, wrapping the spices so the accord reads as black suede dusted with kitchen ash rather than glossy biker hide. Musk stays close to the skin, turning the late dry-down into a soft, greyish fuzz where the leather’s grain is still visible but no longer dominant. Projection stays polite—arm’s-length at best—yet the leather lingers on fabric until the next morning. Cool autumn nights, dark denim, low-lit bars; it needs chill air to keep the ginger from flashing off too fast.
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.
