Routes Nomades
Ginger snaps open hot and peppery, its bite sharpened by cardamom’s cool citrus edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Cinnamon
- Vetiver
- Ylang-Ylang
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open hot and peppery, its bite sharpened by cardamom’s cool citrus edge. Cinnamon quickly folds into the heat, turning the spice creamy while ylang-ylang drops a custard-like floral that keeps the accord from scorching. Vetiver threads green smoke through the heart, preparing the runway for incense that rises dry and papery, flanked by dark patchouli and a quietly waxed leather skin. Over hours the ginger ember fades, leaving a resin-laden leather that smells like travel-worn luggage stored in a temple. Projection hovers at arm’s length for most of the day, projecting best in cool fall evenings or winter office layers. The composition stays linear once the incense lands, yet the spice-cured leather refuses to collapse into sweetness, holding a rugged polish suited to smart-casual settings.
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.
