Le Male Eau d'Ete 2004
Ginger snaps open with a cool, peppery bite that the mint amplifies into an icy-citrus flash, while cardamom adds a faint green heat that keeps the top from turning toothpaste-clean.
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.
- Cinnamon80
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Mint
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a cool, peppery bite that the mint amplifies into an icy-citrus flash, while cardamom adds a faint green heat that keeps the top from turning toothpaste-clean. Cinnamon arrives early, folding its red-hot ribbon into the lavender’s clean, slightly sweet herbaceous core, so the heart feels like spiced shaving foam warmed by orange blossom’s soft white-floral glow. Tonka and vanilla smooth the transition, letting the cedar’s dry pencil shavings push the sandalwood toward a creamy, skin-hugging wood that still carries a ghost of cinnamon heat. Wear is close and stays office-polite for about five hours before collapsing into a faint vanilla-wood skin skin-scent. Spring through early fall days, especially post-gym or casual coffee runs, fit its airy, cooling-spice character best.
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.
