Sparkling Opal
Ginger ignites the opening with a bright, peppery flash that crackles against saffron’s hay-like dryness and the resinous snap of frankincense.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Cinnamon80
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readGinger ignites the opening with a bright, peppery flash that crackles against saffron’s hay-like dryness and the resinous snap of frankincense. The spice column keeps rising as nutmeg and cardamom fold into a hot cinnamon heart, while a clean jasmine-rose duet lifts the smoke threading through the oud and cedar. Leather emerges early, soft at first, then tightening over the creamy sandal-guaiac base as vanilla slowly melts the seams. Dry-down stays resinous-woody rather than syrupy, the musk adding quiet animal warmth that keeps the composition from turning into dessert. Projection carries a polite two-foot radius for six hours; the scent reads smart-casual, autumn through early spring, and feels equally at home under a wool coat or a dinner jacket.
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.
