Black Collection A
Ginger snaps open with a peppery sparkle that quickly fuses to a bitter espresso shot, creating an aromatic coffee-spice accord that dominates the first ten minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Coffee
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a peppery sparkle that quickly fuses to a bitter espresso shot, creating an aromatic coffee-spice accord that dominates the first ten minutes. The heart is deliberately blank; instead the roasted coffee settles directly onto creamy sandalwood and honeyed benzoin, the resins softening the java edge while adding a caramelized amber glow. Over an hour the ginger’s heat evaporates, leaving a sweet, slightly smoked sandalwood-amber cocoon that stays close to skin like the memory of a café at closing time. Projection sits at arm’s length for the first two hours, then pulls inward, making it office-friendly yet cozy. Cool autumn days and indoor evening venues suit its low-hum, resinous warmth best.
Scent twins
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