Uncut Gem
Ginger and bergamot open with dry, citrus-edged spice, nutmeg adding a faintly dusty quality.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Leather90
- Balsamic60
- Smoky60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Mandarin
- Nutmeg
- Leather
- Magnolia
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and bergamot open with dry, citrus-edged spice, nutmeg adding a faintly dusty quality. The opening reads as clean but has a rough texture that resists the expected freshness of a citrus accord.
Leather dominates the heart, cut with vetiver's earthy dryness and frankincense's cool resin. Magnolia provides a quiet floral contrast that softens the leather slightly without displacing it, while labdanum deepens the whole accord with a balsamic undercurrent.
Musk carries through to the skin in the base, wearing close and unhurried. The overall composition is dry, slightly smoky, and anchored by leather — spare in structure but rich in texture, projecting modestly at close range.
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.