Metal Absolu
Ginger snaps open with a hot, peppery sparkle that feels almost effervescent against skin.
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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Vetiver
- Amber
- Virginia Cedar
- Ginger
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a hot, peppery sparkle that feels almost effervescent against skin. The spice stays linear, refusing toage into bakery sweetness; instead it rides a cool vetiver current that emerges within minutes, creating a dry, flinty tension. Cedar adds splintered wood shavings, amplifying the metallic edge while amber quietly warms the base, softening the ginger’s bite without adding sugar. Over two hours the composition folds into a close-wearing skin scent where cedar and vetiver dominate, leaving a faint gingery hum that reads clean rather than culinary. Projection stays arm-length for the first hour, then hovers just above skin, ideal for office days in spring or early fall.
Scent twins
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