Red Hibiscus
A brisk slap of raw ginger opens the composition, sharp and faintly sweet, before melting into a cloud of white florals.
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.
- Floral75
- Smoky60
- Amber55
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Incense
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readA brisk slap of raw ginger opens the composition, sharp and faintly sweet, before melting into a cloud of white florals. The jasmine and ylang-ylang arrive quickly, petals brushed with humidity rather than full-blown tropical excess. They hover close to the skin, warm but not heavy.
As it settles, incense threads through the florals without dominating them, adding a faint haze of smoke. Amber and vanilla provide softness underneath, rounding the edges but never tipping into dessert territory. The whole effect skews legible and wearable, a floral woody composition that gestures toward exoticism without committing fully.
This feels like a fragrance for someone who wants florals without the drama of indolic richness or soliflore intensity. It layers well, fades gracefully, and keeps a polite distance.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
