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The opening flare of ginger and lime hits with a certain angular brightness—sharp citrus cut through by warm spice, less fresh than electric.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Leather75
- Amber60
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lime
- Mint
- Leather
- Amber
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening flare of ginger and lime hits with a certain angular brightness—sharp citrus cut through by warm spice, less fresh than electric. As it softens, mint emerges in the heart, though this isn't kitchen-garden spearmint: it reads cooler, almost mentholated, sustaining that bright metallic edge rather than turning herbal.
What anchors it is the leather-amber base, which develops a smooth, slightly sweet warmth beneath the persistent mint and ginger. The leather isn't animalic or smoky—it's polished and synthetic in character, more boardroom than atelier.
This is a fragrance built for crowded spaces and evening momentum. It favors confidence over subtlety, projecting clearly without much evolution. The man who wears it likely has plans that don't start until after dark.
Scent twins
In this family
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