Alcina Men Alcina 1989 Eau de Cologne
Cut grass opens green and almost juice-bitter — that just-mowed-lawn impression carries the entrance with a clean, slightly sharp freshness.
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.
- Green60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Grass
- Gardenia
- Lavender
- Sandalwood
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCut grass opens green and almost juice-bitter — that just-mowed-lawn impression carries the entrance with a clean, slightly sharp freshness. There is no citrus to soften it, just the green vegetal lift.
Lavender enters in the heart with a clean aromatic register, and gardenia adds an unusual creamy-floral counterweight. The pairing is unexpected — green grass and white floral don't often share a space — and the result feels both barbershop-fresh and quietly floral.
Sandalwood and musk anchor the drydown softly, without pushing the composition warmer or sweeter. The overall character is a green-aromatic cologne with a floral whisper underneath, reading as classical and casual rather than dressed-up. Daytime in feel, light in projection, simple in structure.
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.




