Brut
The opening hits like a barbershop breeze—lavender and citrus cut with anise, clean and bracing.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Basil
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening hits like a barbershop breeze—lavender and citrus cut with anise, clean and bracing. Within minutes, basil adds an herbal edge that keeps the florals from turning soft. This is orange blossom without sweetness, bergamot without polish.
As it settles, jasmine and ylang-ylang emerge but never dominate. The heart stays tethered to that lavender-fougère backbone, more functional than romantic. By the drydown, oakmoss and vetiver anchor everything in earthy territory, with tonka bean smoothing the edges just enough to keep it wearable rather than medicinal.
Brut belongs to the era when men's fragrance meant one thing: clean masculinity with no apologies. It smells likeaftershave because it practically invented the category. Unapologetically straightforward, it wears best on someone who doesn't need their scent to explain them.
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.
