Bella Donna
Ginger snaps open with a bright, peppery sparkle that lifts bergamot's citrus edge into something electric.
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.
- Amber70
- Yellow Floral60
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a bright, peppery sparkle that lifts bergamot's citrus edge into something electric. The heart trades sparkle for cream: magnolia's lemon-peach flesh folds into ylang-ylang's banana custard, creating a plush, tropical white-floral cushion. Base resins arrive early; labdanum's molten leather streak and saffron's hay-iodine snap ride benzoin's soft vanilla, while sandalwood's dry milk keeps the accord from turning gour-cloy. Over two hours the flowers deflate, leaving a skin-brushing amber-musk halo dusted with faint blond wood. Projection stays polite—arm's-length bubble—so the scent reads as daytime silk rather than evening fur. Spring through early fall, office-safe yet quietly carnal.
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.
