Île Pourpre
Ginger provides a sharp, warm-spicy opening that is immediately energizing and slightly peppery on the skin.
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.
- Powdery60
- Fresh Spicy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Frankincense
- Iris
- Ambroxan
- Cashmeran
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGinger provides a sharp, warm-spicy opening that is immediately energizing and slightly peppery on the skin. Frankincense adds a resinous, slightly smoky balsamic quality that deepens the ginger's warmth with a meditative character. Iris emerges in the heart with a distinct powdery and earthy texture, creating a soft contrast to the spicy top notes. Ambroxan and cashmeran in the base contribute a modern musky-woody warmth, while patchouli adds an earthy, slightly sweet grounding element. The composition evolves from spicy-resinous to a soft, powdery-woody dry-down over several hours. It projects moderately with good longevity, fitting for fall and winter evenings or formal occasions.
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.
