I Am Not a Flower
Ginger snaps first, bright and peppery, slicing through a creamy vanilla-amber cloud that quickly folds in sandalwood’s dry creaminess.
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.
- Soft Spicy90
- Vanilla60
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps first, bright and peppery, slicing through a creamy vanilla-amber cloud that quickly folds in sandalwood’s dry creaminess. Rose arrives next, not lush but distilled to a sheer, slightly sour petal edge that keeps the sweetness taut; patchouli gives an earthy, cocoa-like grit that anchors the floral without letting it bloom. The dry-down stays close to skin, a soft-spicy, lactonic haze where amber and vanilla merge into a coconut-milk warmth, patchouli’s earth still faintly ticking underneath. Projection stays polite, a skin-to-arm’s-length aura for three-to-five hours, ideal for cool spring mornings or air-conditioned summer offices.
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.