Powerful Black
Ginger snaps open with a bright, peppery heat that quickly folds into lavender’s cool, herbal core, creating a spicy-aromatic tension.
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.
- Lavender80
- Leather70
- Fresh Spicy60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lavender
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a bright, peppery heat that quickly folds into lavender’s cool, herbal core, creating a spicy-aromatic tension. The lavender softens the ginger’s bite while picking up a faint soapiness that keeps the heart airy rather than sweet. As the top heat recedes, tonka bean steps forward, adding a toasted-almond sweetness that blurs the lavender edges and warms the skin. Leather arrives late, dry and matte, stretching the tonka into a suede-like panel so the scent ends up clean rather than rugged. Projection stays within arm’s length for about six hours, making it an easy work or travel choice for cool spring mornings.
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.
