Bvlgari pour Homme Extrême
Jacques Cavallier's 1999 reworking of the original Pour Homme keeps the tea-fougère DNA but darkens it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Neroli
- Coriander
- Tea
- Grapefruit
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readJacques Cavallier's 1999 reworking of the original Pour Homme keeps the tea-fougère DNA but darkens it. The opening is herbal and bright — lavender, neroli, grapefruit, bergamot, with galbanum's bitter green giving it edges — before settling within minutes into a spiced rosewood heart of cardamom and nutmeg.
The drydown is the part that's earned its cult: oakmoss and vetiver carry an iris-musk drift over Virginia cedar and sandalwood, and the whole thing reads polished, faintly austere, slightly old-fashioned in the best sense. Tea is implied rather than literal — the shape is there, the leaf isn't. A go-to office and white-shirt fragrance that wears better in cool weather than in heat, and projects more quietly than its reputation suggests.
Scent twins
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