Aigle Imperial
Ginger snaps open with a bright, peppery effervescence that slices through bergamot’s citrus oil, creating a vivid, almost effervescent top.
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.
- Smoky60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Olibanum
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a bright, peppery effervescence that slices through bergamot’s citrus oil, creating a vivid, almost effervescent top. The heart folds olibanum’s cool resin around labdanum’s warm amber, letting patchouli’s earthy leaf breathe smoke between them while keeping the structure dry rather than syrupy. Guaiac wood dominates the base, its dense, tar-smoked pencil-shaving character locking the resins in place and extending the incense tone for hours. As the ginger recedes, the composition tilts from sparkling spice to smoldering wood, projecting a calm, resinous aura that stays close but persistent. Moderate sillage and 6-8 h longevity make it office-friendly, yet the incense core feels most at home under cool autumn air or a brisk spring evening.
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.
