Genius
Ginger snaps open with a fizzy, peppered citrus edge that the amber folds into a warm, resinous glow within minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Neroli
- Amber
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a fizzy, peppered citrus edge that the amber folds into a warm, resinous glow within minutes. The heart layers tonka’s almond-sweet coumarin roundness over cool iris starch and faintly bitter tobacco leaf, creating a creamy, blond tobacco accord that smells more like fresh-cut cigar wrappers than smoke. Ylang-yl adds a muted banana-like custard richness that keeps the tobacco from turning dry. As the opening spices recede, Madagascar vanilla and labdanum take over, thickening the amber into a supple, almost honeyed leather that hugs skin. Patchouli arrives late, supplying a chocolate-earth undertone that steers the sweetness away from gourmand cliché; musk shepherds everything into a soft, close aura. Projection stays polite, projecting an arm’s-length amber-tobacco haze for six-to-eight hours, ideal for cool autumn evenings or smart-casual office 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.
