Baldessarini Hugo Boss
The opening is brisk and clean—a jolt of mint that clears the air without veering medicinal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Amber70
- Tobacco65
- Patchouli55
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Amber
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is brisk and clean—a jolt of mint that clears the air without veering medicinal. It's more menthol exhale than herbal garden, a deliberate contrast to what follows.
As it settles, the brightness retreats and the base emerges with weight: amber warmed by tobacco leaf, earthy patchouli grounding the sweetness. The musk adds a skin-like intimacy, keeping the composition from feeling too distant or formal. This is less about crisp shirts than late evenings and worn leather.
Baldessarini skews traditional masculine without nostalgia. It suits someone comfortable with restraint, who prefers presence over projection. The mint-to-amber arc feels deliberate, almost architectural—a fragrance that knows exactly what it wants to be.
Scent twins
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