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Azzaro · Est. 1978

Azzaro pour Homme

Azzaro Pour Homme opens with a clean, aromatic blast—lavender and bergamot lifted by the licorice snap of star anise and the green punch of basil.

ConcentrationFragrance
Formasculine
Released1978
Statusenriched
Azzaro pour Homme — Azzaro
1978 · Fragrance
lav·san·ber·ced
Rating
3.9
5.9k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 14 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.

  • Lavender
    85
  • Sandalwood
    70
  • Bergamot
    70
  • Cedar
    70
  • Vetiver
    65

By the editors · 2 min readAzzaro Pour Homme opens with a clean, aromatic blast—lavender and bergamot lifted by the licorice snap of star anise and the green punch of basil. It's the kind of barbershop freshness that defined late-seventies masculinity, but sharper and more herbal than its contemporaries, almost medicinal in its clarity.

The heart pulls in woody warmth without abandoning that crisp opening. Sandalwood and cedar provide structure while vetiver adds an earthy bitterness, kept in check by soft cardamom. There's balance here: nothing overpowers, nothing hides.

The base settles into a skin-close blend of moss, amber, and leather—references to classic chypre construction, though lighter and more wearable than the heavy formal scents of the era. It dries down quietly masculine, clean rather than animalic, the kind of scent that fits under a collar as easily as a weekend shirt. A workhorse fragrance that doesn't apologize for its simplicity.

Filed: AzzaroSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap