Gelsomini di Capri 2017
Ginger snaps against lemon and bergamot, creating a fizzy, sun-warmed citrus that smells like grated zest on salty skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps against lemon and bergamot, creating a fizzy, sun-warmed citrus that smells like grated zest on salty skin. The heart blooms with a jasmine-ylang tandem: the jasmine adds a green, almost banana-leaf facet while ylang supplies buttery sweetness, both trimmed by orange blossom’s soap-clean edge so the white floral accord stays airy, never cloying. Rose is listed but reads more as a pastel wash that softens the edges rather than a distinct red petal note. Labdanum and vanilla in the base fold the citrus-floral brightness into a sheer amber glaze that clings close, musk adding clean skin musk rather than animal growl. Projection stays at arm’s length for four hours, perfect for a humid summer evening stroll along the marina.
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.
