Atomica
Ginger snaps open with a dry, peppery heat that immediately crackles against guaiac wood’s tarry smoke.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Smoky90
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Vetiver
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Cypriol
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a dry, peppery heat that immediately crackles against guaiac wood’s tarry smoke. Vetiver and cedar shoulder in, sharpening the spine into a cool, mineral green that keeps the ginger from turning candied. Frankincense and olibanum fuse into a gauzy resin sheath, filtering the woods through a church-window haze while cypriol adds a faint leather undertone. As the resin relaxes, amber warms the base, letting musk ride quietly on skin like brushed suede. Projection stays polite—an arm-length aura for office or close-quarters evening—yet the ginger-wood duet lingers eight hours, steadily smokier as guaiac outlasts the spices.
Scent twins
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