Colors Man Black
Benetton Colors Man Black opens with the expected masculine triad: black pepper, bergamot, and nutmeg — a sharp, slightly smoky-spiced opening that establishes a dark, credible tone without excessive drama.
The scent fingerprint
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.
- Lavender60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Lavender
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readBenetton Colors Man Black opens with the expected masculine triad: black pepper, bergamot, and nutmeg — a sharp, slightly smoky-spiced opening that establishes a dark, credible tone without excessive drama. The pepper bites first, the bergamot lifts briefly, and the nutmeg adds earthy warmth that signals where the scent is headed.
The heart is the more interesting register: lavender, vetiver, patchouli, and suede create a simultaneously herbal, earthy, and tactile accord with genuine texture. Vetiver's dryness and patchouli's earthiness press against the smooth suede in a combination that rewards the middle stage. Amber and musk close without surprise, warm and quietly persistent. A solid, unflashy masculine fragrance that exceeds its modest positioning.
Scent twins
In this family
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