Bruno Banani Summer Man Limited Edition 2023
Apple and grapefruit open with a fresh, slightly tart fruitiness — apple's sweetness softened by grapefruit's bitter-citrus edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Grapefruit
- Lavender
- Guaiac Wood
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readApple and grapefruit open with a fresh, slightly tart fruitiness — apple's sweetness softened by grapefruit's bitter-citrus edge. The combination reads as summer: light, uncomplicated, and immediately accessible.
Vetiver, benzoin, and amber in the base create more depth than the light opening would predict. Benzoin brings a resinous sweetness; amber adds warmth; vetiver contributes a dry, smoky-earthy backbone that grounds the composition. The transition from bright fruit to resin-and-vetiver base gives this more character than its casual exterior suggests. A summer fragrance with a more interesting base than the opening implies — the vetiver is the noteworthy element.
Scent twins
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