Dark Amber & Ginger Lily
Ginger and pink pepper open the composition with a fizzy-warm prickle, the spice immediately joined by a soft leather shadow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather85
- Smoky70
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Pink Pepper
- Water Lily
- Orchid
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and pink pepper open the composition with a fizzy-warm prickle, the spice immediately joined by a soft leather shadow.
The heart pivots to leather rather than lily — there's a brief jasmine-rose floral lift, but leather is doing most of the work, smoky and slightly sweet, with frankincense rising to add a resinous chord.
Sandalwood and patchouli ground the dry-down in dry wood and damp earth. Overall character: a smoky leather-incense with a quiet floral hint, more amber than gourmand. Wear feels intentional rather than incidental. The smoke holds rather than dissipates. The patchouli is the spine, never absent.
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.
