Empire des Indes
Ginger and bergamot give the opening a warm, lightly spiced citrus character — fresh but not sharp, with a soft, slightly rooty edge from the ginger that prevents it from reading as clean citrus alone.
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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.
- Balsamic70
- Powdery70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Musk
- Heliotrope
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and bergamot give the opening a warm, lightly spiced citrus character — fresh but not sharp, with a soft, slightly rooty edge from the ginger that prevents it from reading as clean citrus alone.
Heliotrope at the heart introduces a powdery, almond-like quality — sweet but not cloying, floral without being assertive. It bridges the top notes into a warmer register, softening the spice and preparing the base.
Tonka bean, benzoin, sandalwood, and opoponax arrive together as a dense, balsamic accord — sweet resin over warm wood. The overall impression is a powdery-oriental fragrance: gently spiced, quietly sweet, with lasting balsamic depth suited to cool weather and unhurried occasions.
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.
