Absolute Man
Black pepper and grapefruit announce a sharp, citrus-driven opening with a faint bite.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Grapefruit
- Violet Leaf
- Violet Leaf
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and grapefruit announce a sharp, citrus-driven opening with a faint bite. The pepper stays assertive while the grapefruit fades quickly, leaving violet leaf and lily of the valley to soften things midway — a cool, slightly green floral pause that keeps the composition from feeling too heavy.
The base is where it settles: tonka bean and vanilla round the edges with a mild sweetness, while amber and amberwood add quiet warmth without becoming opaque. It reads as a balanced, wearable masculine — fresh top, soft floral middle, smooth sweet-woody close. Nothing about it pushes boundaries, but every element connects cleanly.
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.
