Volcanic Flowers
Ginger snaps first, bright and peppery, slicing through a creamy coffee-sandalwood swirl that immediately feels warm and resinous.
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.
- Leather80
- Soft Spicy70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Lily of the Valley
- Clove
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Musk
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps first, bright and peppery, slicing through a creamy coffee-sandalwood swirl that immediately feels warm and resinous. Jasmine and lily-of-the-valley arrive quickly, lifting the mix with cool, green-tinged petals while cardamom and nutmeg dust the flowers in soft, sweet heat. Leather is present from the start, not harsh but suede-smooth, stretching the white florals into a supple skin-like layer that keeps the vanilla and amber from turning syrupy. As the spice curtain drops, patchouli musk anchors everything to a matte wood base, letting the earlier coffee re-emerge as a toasted, faintly bitter contrast that lingers for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length; best for cool autumn nights or an indoor evening where you want sillage without announcement.
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.
