DNA for Men
Lavender, lemon, and bergamot open with a classic clean fougère brightness — herbal, citric, and slightly soapy in the very best mid-century way.
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.
- Lavender70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Ginger
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readLavender, lemon, and bergamot open with a classic clean fougère brightness — herbal, citric, and slightly soapy in the very best mid-century way. The opening sets a confidently masculine traditional tone.
The heart adds unusual complexity: gardenia brings a creamy lactonic floral quality that's rare in masculines, ginger threads warm spice through, and jasmine adds an indolic floral depth that softens the structure.
The base is where this earns its weight — a dense classical landing of tonka, sandalwood, oakmoss, incense, leather, vetiver, benzoin, amber, cedar, patchouli, and musk all stacking into a smoky-mossy-leathery oriental fougère. Overall the character is rich, slightly old-school, and built for cool-weather evening wear; projection and longevity both run strong.
Scent twins
In this family
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
