Tersus
Ginger snaps open with a fizzy, pepper-sweet heat that quickly pulls crisp green apple and bergamot into its wake, creating a bright, slightly spicy citrus splash.
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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Apple
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a fizzy, pepper-sweet heat that quickly pulls crisp green apple and bergamot into its wake, creating a bright, slightly spicy citrus splash. Sage slides in within minutes, drying the fruit with an earthy, slightly bitter green accent that mutes the sweetness and steers the scent toward a more masculine register. As the heart settles, tonka bean pours creamy, soft almond facets over cedar’s clean pencil-shave wood, while vetiver threads smoke and rooty grass through the base. Olibanum adds a cool, church-bench incense that lifts the composition out of gourmand territory, letting amber glow quietly underneath for warmth without syrup. Projection drops to arm’s length after two hours, leaving a cool-aromatic skin trail perfect for spring office days or post-gym workouts in spring and early fall.
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.