First Instinct Man Abercrombie & Fitch 2016 Eau de Toilette
Violet leaf leads with a cool, metallic green snap that reads like crushed stems and rainwater on concrete.
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.
- Green60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Citrus
- Sichuan Pepper
- Amber
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf leads with a cool, metallic green snap that reads like crushed stems and rainwater on concrete. Sichuan pepper sparks quickly underneath, adding a electric tingle that keeps the violet from turning powdery, while an unnamed citrus keeps the top airy and mobile. The heart is brief: the pepper warms, the violet softens, and a clean suede begins to rise, carrying a faint ozonic lift that feels like chilled air across fabric. Amber arrives early in the base, coupling with the suede to form a smooth, skin-tight sheath that muffles the earlier green crackle and settles into a soft, grey musk. Projection stays within handshake range for four hours, then collapses to a clean, cottony skin scent ideal for close-office days or after-gym reset.
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.
