Ganymede
Ganymede opens with a mineral coolness—mandarin sharpened by an almost metallic violet leaf accord that feels more lunar surface than citrus grove.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Leather65
- Ozonic55
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Violet
- Saffron
- Osmanthus
- Violet
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readGanymede opens with a mineral coolness—mandarin sharpened by an almost metallic violet leaf accord that feels more lunar surface than citrus grove. There's an immediate sense of elevation, as if the composition exists in rarified air where leather meets suede meets something faintly saline and synthetic in the best possible way. The overall effect is clean but not soapy, modern but not clinical.
As it develops, a soft suede note emerges beneath that initial brightness, grounding the composition without weighing it down. The drydown reveals an ambery warmth that remains transparent, never veering into heaviness. What persists is this peculiar balance between warmth and coolness, organic and synthetic—a skin scent that hovers just above the skin rather than melting into it.
This is fragrance as atmosphere rather than statement: perfectly suited to minimalist sensibilities, grey cashmere, art galleries in winter light. Unisex in the truest sense, requiring no particular boldness to wear but rewarding those who appreciate restraint.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
