Colors de Benetton Man
Colors Man opens on the standard 80s aromatic playbook — lavender, lemon, bergamot — bright and clean for the first ten minutes before pivoting into a fuller heart of jasmine and rose.
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.
- Amber60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readColors Man opens on the standard 80s aromatic playbook — lavender, lemon, bergamot — bright and clean for the first ten minutes before pivoting into a fuller heart of jasmine and rose. The florals here are dressed rather than bare, sitting between the aromatic top and the warm base without dominating.
The drydown is where the perfume shows its decade. Sandalwood and cedar build a creamy-dry woody bed, vanilla and benzoin pulling toward an amber warmth, patchouli adding a darker thread underneath. Coconut sits in the mix as a soft milky undercurrent rather than a tropical signal. It wears warm and confident, projecting moderately, and earns its weight in cool weather and evening hours.
Scent twins
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