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Ginger snaps first, bright and peppery, cutting through bergamot’s terse citrus edge for a brisk, slightly bitter opening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Fresh Spicy60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Amberwood
- Bourbon Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps first, bright and peppery, cutting through bergamot’s terse citrus edge for a brisk, slightly bitter opening. Lavender lands in the heart, cool and clean, smoothing the ginger’s heat while keeping the structure airy rather than floral. Amberwood spreads beneath, a dry, ambery wood that drifts slightly smoky, while bourbon vanilla folds in warm, boozy sweetness that lingers close to skin. Over hours the vanilla grows creamier, the amberwood softens, and the lavender’s soap-clean lift fades, leaving a low, sweet wood-resin skin film. Projection stays polite, office-safe; the scent thrives in spring and early fall, especially under a dress shirt. Complexity is modest, but the ginger-vanilla arc keeps it from smelling flat.
Scent twins
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