I Love New York for Him
Ginger and grapefruit open with sharp, energetic brightness — the ginger adds a prickly edge that distinguishes this from a generic citrus start.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather80
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Grapefruit
- Leather
- Lavender
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and grapefruit open with sharp, energetic brightness — the ginger adds a prickly edge that distinguishes this from a generic citrus start. Lavender and leather follow, and it's a pairing that pulls in opposite directions: the lavender is clean and aromatic, while the leather is dry and slightly animalic. Patchouli grounds the heart without overwhelming it.
Labdanum and amber in the base smooth things considerably, adding resinous warmth that wraps around the sandalwood and musk. The drydown is where this settles into its character — a warm, slightly smoky amber-leather that retains a trace of the herbal lavender throughout. Evolves meaningfully across its arc.
Scent twins
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.




