Intense Instinct
Ginger snaps open with a fizzy, almost carbonated heat that rides on cool melon water.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Melon
- Lemon
- Violet Leaf
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a fizzy, almost carbonated heat that rides on cool melon water. Lemon keeps the top bright and sheer, letting the spicy rhizome dominate for the first ten minutes. Violet leaf slides in early, adding a crushed-green dampness that mutes the fruit and steers the scent toward a damp-forest vibe rather than beach cocktail. Cedar arrives dry and pencil-sharp, tightening the heart while musk blankets everything in a clean, skin-hugging wash that smells like freshly showered rather than perfumed skin. The whole structure stays light and transparent, shifting from fizzy spice to aqueous woods before folding into a soft white musk that sits two inches from skin for about four hours. It feels built for post-gym refreshment, pairing best with warm spring mornings or humid summer commutes when you want cleanness without loud projection.
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.
