Affecting Mind
Ginger snaps open with a bright, peppery heat that cardamom softens into a sweet-tinged, almost tea-like spice.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Nutty90
- Woody70
- Amber50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Hazelnut
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a bright, peppery heat that cardamom softens into a sweet-tinged, almost tea-like spice. Heart woods arrive quickly: vetiver’s cool, rooty smoke folds into dry cedar while a toasted hazelnut accord adds creamy, oily texture, turning the spices nut-brown rather than fiery. Amber warms the base, suede sheens it with a sueded skin tone, and clean musk stretches the woods into a close, second-skin haze. After ninety minutes the ginger recedes, leaving cedar-hazelnut dusted by amber sweetness, a quiet woody skin scent that lasts office-day hours. Projection stays within handshake distance; wear it to work through fall and cool spring.
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.