Overture Man
Overture Man opens with a full-orchestra entry: ginger, cumin, saffron, grapefruit, cardamom, and nutmeg simultaneously — a spice-citrus blend that is dense and warm from the first moment.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Smoky70
- Balsamic65
- Leather60
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cumin
- Saffron
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readOverture Man opens with a full-orchestra entry: ginger, cumin, saffron, grapefruit, cardamom, and nutmeg simultaneously — a spice-citrus blend that is dense and warm from the first moment. Cumin gives the opening a slightly animalic, skin-adjacent quality that Amouage uses without apology. Grapefruit lifts the whole accord, preventing it from becoming heavy.
The heart doubles down: cinnamon, myrrh, labdanum, benzoin, and patchouli form one of the richest resinous-oriental hearts in the contemporary Amouage catalog. Myrrh's slightly bitter medicinal quality and labdanum's animalic warmth are the defining materials.
Sandalwood, incense, leather, frankincense, smoke, and clary sage resolve the resinous heart into something both drier and more expansive. Smoke and clary sage add herbal-woody lightness that saves the composition from opacity. Genuinely complex.
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.
