511 Black Tie
Ginger snaps open with a peppery heat that quickly folds into sage’s camphor bite, creating a cool-warm tension.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Almond70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Sage
- Lily
- Heliotrope
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a peppery heat that quickly folds into sage’s camphor bite, creating a cool-warm tension. Lily steps in to soften the edges, adding a clean soap accent while heliotrope’s almond-powder facet bridges the herbs to the sweeter base. Tonka dominates the dry-down, pumping out a toasted-bean richness that mingles with amber’s resinous glow and vanilla’s soft custard curve. Musk stays low, anchoring the composition in a skin-close haze rather than clouding the room. Projection hovers at conversational distance for five to six hours, making it office-safe yet still perceptible. The scent leans cooler weather and smart-casual settings where its gentle spice won’t compete with food or competing fragrances.
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.
