Impression Legend
Ginger and cardamom crack open with a dry, peppery heat that feels like crushed pods hitting warm skin.
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.
- Tobacco60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Moss
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Sage
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and cardamom crack open with a dry, peppery heat that feels like crushed pods hitting warm skin. The spices ride a smooth sandalwood wave, its creamy grain softening the edges while oakmiss moss adds a cool, forest-floor dampness that keeps the wood from turning sweet. At the halfway point, leather emerges—initially as a clean suede, then darkening as clary sage’s bittersweet green facets and a ribbon of sun-cured tobacco leaf build a quiet smokiness. The dry-down stays close, a supple leather strap lightly dusted with dried herbs and the ghost of the opening spice, projecting no farther than a forearm’s length yet lingering for hours. Cool fall evenings, tweed jacket pockets, or a midnight drive with the window cracked—its restrained aura fits any space where scent should whisper, not shout.
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.
