Damascus Desert
Ginger, lemon, and bergamot open with a bright, zesty freshness that feels invigorating and slightly spicy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Iris
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readGinger, lemon, and bergamot open with a bright, zesty freshness that feels invigorating and slightly spicy. Orris and iris emerge swiftly, introducing a powdery, rooty earthiness that contrasts with the citrus top notes. Clary sage adds an aromatic, slightly herbal quality that bridges the citrus and powdery heart accords. The base reveals vetiver's dry grassiness and moss's damp earthiness, supported by cedar's clean wood and amber's faint resinous warmth. Musk blends everything into a dry, textured skin scent that feels both elegant and rugged. Evolution is moderate, moving from fresh-spicy to powdery-woody over several hours. Projection is intimate, making it suitable for office wear and casual outings in cool to warm weather.
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.
