Mana
Ginger, black pepper, saffron, and cardamom open with immediate spiced intensity — saffron lending a metallic-honeyed depth while the peppered cardamom keeps things sharp and dry rather than sweet.
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.
- Balsamic70
- Soft Spicy55
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Oud
- Suede
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readGinger, black pepper, saffron, and cardamom open with immediate spiced intensity — saffron lending a metallic-honeyed depth while the peppered cardamom keeps things sharp and dry rather than sweet.
Oud and suede emerge in the heart alongside castoreum, adding a leathery-animalic layer that the spices fold into rather than compete with. The base is expansive: sandalwood, guaiac wood, patchouli, frankincense, labdanum, and benzoin build a resinous-smoky foundation with genuine depth. Moss adds a slight earthy coolness beneath.
The result is a heavily layered, dark, and smoky oriental with warm-spice scaffolding. It projects confidently and wears long — a deliberate, slow-burning composition suited to cold evenings.
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.
