Incense
Ginger opens hot and biting, its peppery heat amplified by cardamom’s resinous snap while lime provides a fleeting citric edge that keeps the spice sharp.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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 Spicy70
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lime
- Cardamom
- Lily of the Valley
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readGinger opens hot and biting, its peppery heat amplified by cardamom’s resinous snap while lime provides a fleeting citric edge that keeps the spice sharp. The lily-of-the-valley heart arrives quickly, a clean, watery green bell that rinses away most of the lime and softens the ginger into a damp stem accord. As the musky sandalwood and salty ambergris settle, vetiver threads a dry, rooty smoke through the vanilla, turning the base into a pale, woody skin scent with only a whisper of sweetness. Projection drops to intimate within two hours, making it office-safe yet quietly distinctive. Cool spring or early autumn days suit it best, especially under a light jacket where the remaining ginger can still flicker.
Scent twins
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