Dark Rain
Ginger snaps open with a cool, peppery bite that feels like crushed root rather than bakery spice.
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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Petitgrain
- Jasmine
- Vetiver
- Amber
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a cool, peppery bite that feels like crushed root rather than bakery spice. Petitgrain rushes in immediately, its bitter-green twig character stretching the ginger’s bite into something more aromatic and airy, while jasmine hovers just underneath, lending a faint floral sweetness that keeps the heart from turning harsh. Vetiver dominates the dry-down, its smoky-earth facets soaking up the amber’s resinous warmth and cedar’s pencil-shave dryness to create a cool, rain-on-soil accord that lingers close to skin. Projection stays moderate, wafting maybe arm’s length for four hours before settling into a calm, woody skin scent that works best on drizzly spring afternoons or cool summer nights when you want quiet complexity without announcing yourself across a room.
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.
