Bourrasque (2020)
Ginger snaps open with a bright, peppery heat that cardamom softens into a cool, green-tinged aromatic.
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.
- Floral60
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Bulgarian Rose
- Opoponax
- Osmanthus
- Styrax
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a bright, peppery heat that cardamom softens into a cool, green-tinged aromatic. Bulgarian rose soon blooms, its petals dusted with osmanthus apricot fuzz, while opoponax and styrax pour out a molten, incense-sweet resin that warms the entire frame. Oakmoss and patchouli ground the glow, moss adding a damp forest floor crunch that keeps the resins from turning syrupy. Over hours the ginger fades, leaving a leathery, earthy rose smoldering against cool patchouli shadows. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it office-safe yet quietly dramatic through cool autumn days.
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.
