Ganymede Extrait
Ganymede Extrait opens with a sharp incense and myrrh pairing that leans resinous and slightly medicinal — not sweet, but dense with a cool mineral edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Leather90
- Balsamic70
- Smoky70
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Myrrh
- Leather
- Myrrh
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readGanymede Extrait opens with a sharp incense and myrrh pairing that leans resinous and slightly medicinal — not sweet, but dense with a cool mineral edge. The smoke settles quickly rather than billowing, giving way to a dry leather core that feels stripped back and precise.
Mandarin provides a thin citrus lift that keeps the composition from feeling buried, but it reads as background texture rather than a featured element. The leather here is clean rather than animalic — more like treated hide than worn saddle.
The overall effect is austere and close to the skin, built for cool weather and quiet spaces. Dark without being heavy, it rewards patience over projection.
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.
