Dirty Ginger
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, prickly heat that the pyramid lists first, its coarse granularity cutting through the lime’s tart, almost bitter zest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Earthy60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
- Lime
- Ginger
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, prickly heat that the pyramid lists first, its coarse granularity cutting through the lime’s tart, almost bitter zest. Cumin arrives seconds later, adding a sweaty, skin-like savoriness that makes the citrus feel lived-in rather than sparkling. The promised heart of ginger never truly separates; instead it fuses with the pepper and vetiver into one continuous, fibrous root accord that smells like grated rhizome dusted with soil. Vetiver in the base keeps the profile cool and grassy, anchoring the spices so they hover just above the skin rather than cloud the air. Projection stays within arm’s length for four hours, making it an easy summer workday scent when you want quiet heat.
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.
