Summanus
Ginger ignites the opening with a bright, peppery flash that crackles against bergamot's citrus oil sheen, while cardamom seeds a cool, green resinous current underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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 Spicy80
- Woody70
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readGinger ignites the opening with a bright, peppery flash that crackles against bergamot's citrus oil sheen, while cardamom seeds a cool, green resinous current underneath. Black pepper's dry heat fuses the spices into a tight, effervescent accord that lifts the rose-jasmine heart rather than masking it, letting the flowers read as translucent and sun-lit. Amber spreads through the mid-stage like warm honey, softening the spice edges and tinting the petals tobacco-gold. In the dry-down, tonka bean folds its marzipan sweetness around sandalwood's creamy grain, cedar adding a quiet pencil-shave clarity that keeps the base from sagging into gourmand heaviness. Projection stays within arm's length for six hours, making it office-safe yet charismatic through cool autumn days.
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.
