L'Astre
Ginger snaps open with a hot, peppery crackle that cardamom and thyme cool into an aromatic, slightly bitter green edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Yellow Floral90
- Aromatic60
- Vanilla50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Fennel
- Thyme
- Cardamom
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a hot, peppery crackle that cardamom and thyme cool into an aromatic, slightly bitter green edge. The heart blooms into a creamy yellow-floral block where ylang-ylang’s banana-fat richness merges with jasmine’s indolic radiance, while orange blossom keeps the bouquet airy rather than syrupy. Vanilla and amber in the base slowly toast the petals, turning them lactonic and almost oily, and suede smooths the edges so the dry-down feels like soft suede gloves dusted with pollen. Projection stays at arm’s length for six hours before it settles as a skin-warmed tropical custard haze. Spring through early fall outdoor brunches, smart-casual offices, or travel days when you want sunshine without obvious coconut.
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.



