Uncut Gem
The opening bristles with ginger and nutmeg, warm spice cut through with bergamot's bright oil.
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.
- Leather75
- Earthy65
- Citrus60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening bristles with ginger and nutmeg, warm spice cut through with bergamot's bright oil. There's an immediate tension between the raw and the refined, like unpolished stone catching light at odd angles. Within minutes, leather emerges—not the plush kind, but something closer to saddle soap and work gloves, grounded by vetiver's earthy roots and olibanum's dry, resinous smoke.
As it settles, amber and musk soften the composition without sweetening it. The ginger persists as a golden thread, keeping everything alert and slightly unfinished. This is deliberate roughness, a studied asymmetry that resists the house's usual polish.
Uncut Gem suits those who find conventional leather fragrances too baroque or too safe. It favors cool weather and people comfortable with a certain angularity in their scent.
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.




