Obsession Night for Men
The opening jolts awake with crisp pear and grapefruit sharpened by cardamom's green spice—an unexpectedly bright start for a fragrance called Night.
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.
- Earthy70
- Musky65
- Patchouli55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pear
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening jolts awake with crisp pear and grapefruit sharpened by cardamom's green spice—an unexpectedly bright start for a fragrance called Night. Within minutes, nutmeg warms the citrus away while musk begins its slow takeover, turning skin-close and intimate.
The base settles into vetiver's earthy smoke tempered by vanilla's subtle sweetness, with patchouli lending just enough shadow to justify the name. It's cleaner and less heavy than the original Obsession for Men, trading baroque intensity for something more wearable.
This works best in cooler months on someone who wants presence without weight—a modern woody-oriental that suggests evening plans without demanding a tuxedo. The musk throughout keeps it from feeling too polite, anchoring the sweeter notes with skin and warmth.
Scent twins
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