Ginger Lily
Ginger opens with a sharp, warm-spicy kick that feels both aromatic and slightly peppery.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Clove
- Styrax
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGinger opens with a sharp, warm-spicy kick that feels both aromatic and slightly peppery. Lily and ylang-ylang introduce a creamy, tropical floral heart, while clove adds a pungent, medicinal warmth. Rose provides a soft, powdery counterpoint to the intensity of the other florals and spices. Vetiver and amber form a dry, resinous base that grounds the composition with an earthy, balsamic quality. The scent evolves significantly, moving from spicy-bright to floral-creamy and finally to woody-ambery. Projection is strong initially but becomes more intimate over time, suited for fall and winter evenings where its complexity can unfold.
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.
