Humor 3
Ginger snaps open first, bright and peppery, cut by lemon and bergot-like bergamot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Soft Spicy85
- Aromatic85
- Fresh Spicy85
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Orange Blossom
- Musk
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Neroli
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open first, bright and peppery, cut by lemon and bergot-like bergamot. The bite softens quickly as neroli and jasmine fold in, turning the heat into a creamy white-floral haze lifted by ylang-ylang’s banana-sweet lift. Vetiver threads an earthy green seam through the heart, keeping the bouquet from turning sugary while clary sage and thyme add a faint kitchen-garden edge. Amber and vanilla arrive late, warming the musk base into clean skin salted by smoky opoponax and a dry patchouli crumble. Mandarin lingers longest, a candied citrus peel that keeps the dry-down luminous rather than plush. Projection stays polite, a skin-radius glow perfect for office or humid summer days.
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.
