Once Upon a Time Kingdom
Ginger and saffron snap open with a dry, peppery heat that quickly picks up bergamot's citrus edge, giving the first minutes a bright, slightly bitter sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Tuberose50
- White Floral50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Peony
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and saffron snap open with a dry, peppery heat that quickly picks up bergamot's citrus edge, giving the first minutes a bright, slightly bitter sparkle. Tuberose arrives early, its creamy white-petal heft swelling through the spices, while peony keeps the floral heart airy so the composition never cloys. As the musk base emerges, it shears off the flowers' sweetness and locks the ginger's warmth against clean skin, producing a soft suede aura rather than loud projection. The scent stays close, cycling between floral cream and spice-laced musk for roughly five hours, tilting slightly sweeter in late dry-down. Spring through early fall office wear suits its polite radius; humid days amplify the ginger lift without turning sharp. Limited note list keeps evolution linear, yet the tension between hot spice and cool petal gives more motion than the pyramid suggests.
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.
