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Ginger and cardamom open dry and aromatic, the ginger giving a bright spicy lift and the cardamom adding cool aromatic warmth.
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.
- Leather75
- Honey70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Incense
- Leather
- Myrrh
- Frankincense
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and cardamom open dry and aromatic, the ginger giving a bright spicy lift and the cardamom adding cool aromatic warmth. There is no fruit or citrus rounding the top — the opening is angular and direct.
The heart is where the weight lives: incense, leather, myrrh, frankincense and amber build a smoky-resinous core, with honey adding a sticky-animalic edge and iris a powdery counterweight. It is dense rather than diffuse, with the spice from the top still threading through.
Guaiac, vetiver and patchouli anchor the base into a smoky-woody close that holds the resin steady. Overall character is a dark spicy-incense composition with a leather-honey middle — cool-weather, evening, and built for projection and depth rather than freshness.
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.
