New West for Him
New West for Him opens with a bracing lavender-mint rush tempered by bergamot, like cold water on sun-warmed skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Woody75
- Leather70
- Lavender65
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readNew West for Him opens with a bracing lavender-mint rush tempered by bergamot, like cold water on sun-warmed skin. The herbal clarity feels deliberate and clean, a corrective to the heavier aromatic fougères that preceded it in the late eighties. As it settles, jasmine appears briefly, softening the edges before the base takes hold with sandalwood and oakmoss forming the structural core.
What emerges is a leathered, woody drydown with amber warmth and the faint muskiness of well-worn suede. The patchouli and cedar add depth without dominating, keeping the composition grounded and decidedly masculine in the classical sense. It wears close and ages gracefully on skin, neither shouting nor disappearing entirely.
This is fragrance for someone who prefers understatement, who wants something recognizably composed but not ornate. It belongs to a particular moment in American perfumery when houses were trying to modernize traditional structures without abandoning them completely.
Scent twins
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