Volcano
Ginger and Bulgarian rose open together — the ginger sharp and slightly biting, the rose pushing back with a soft, full-bodied warmth.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bulgarian Rose
- Olibanum
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and Bulgarian rose open together — the ginger sharp and slightly biting, the rose pushing back with a soft, full-bodied warmth. Nutmeg adds a dry spice underneath that keeps the opening from reading as straightforwardly floral.
Olibanum arrives in the heart, carrying its characteristic resinous, church-incense quality. It softens the ginger's bite while amplifying the rose's darker side. The interaction between rose and frankincense is the core of this fragrance — smoke and bloom in slow conversation.
The overall profile is resinous, warm, and spice-forward, with the rose anchoring rather than sweetening. It carries itself with a certain austere warmth that suits cooler weather and reflective occasions.
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.
