White Tea Ginger Lily
Neroli and bergamot open the bottle with a clean orange-blossom shimmer, but the perfume's center belongs to ginger — not the candied bakery kind, the raw-root warmth that catches at the back of the throat.
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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Violet Leaf
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and bergamot open the bottle with a clean orange-blossom shimmer, but the perfume's center belongs to ginger — not the candied bakery kind, the raw-root warmth that catches at the back of the throat. Violet leaf cools that heat into something green and faintly metallic, while the violet itself adds a thin powdery cushion underneath.
The drydown softens toward tonka, cedar, and a clean white musk, holding the ginger in suspension long after the citrus has gone. It reads as a daytime tea-ritual perfume — alert, scrubbed, vegetal — and stays close to the skin rather than projecting across a room.
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.




