Black Steel
Ginger snaps open with a bright, peppery heat that feels like fresh root scraped across metal.
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.
- Fresh50
- Almond50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Leather
- Almond
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a bright, peppery heat that feels like fresh root scraped across metal. Black pepper rushes in immediately, sharpening the ginger’s citrus edge while adding a dry, almost dusty crackle that hovers just above skin. The heart flips the texture from effervescent to supple as leather arrives, smooth and matte, absorbing the spices so they glow quietly rather than shout. Almond in the base warms everything with a pale, milky sweetness that blunts the leather’s tannic pull and lets the fragrance settle into a soft, skin-close suede glow. Mid-stage stays linear: the peppery opening simply lowers its voice while the almond slowly fattens the backdrop. Projection stays within arm’s length, perfect for cool spring days or an air-conditioned office when you want quiet distinction without sweetness.
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.