212 Vip Men Wins 2021
Yuzu and basil open with a sharp, herbal-citrus brightness — the yuzu sour rather than sweet, the basil green and slightly anisic.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Sweet50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Yuzu
- Basil
- Lavender
- Tonka Bean
- Tonka Bean
- Yuzu
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readYuzu and basil open with a sharp, herbal-citrus brightness — the yuzu sour rather than sweet, the basil green and slightly anisic. It's the most aromatic entry into a 212 VIP Men flanker the line has tried, and it lasts about as long as you'd expect a citrus opening to.
Lavender threads through the heart, pulling the composition toward classic fougère territory before tonka in the base softens everything into the line's signature sweet warmth. Mandarin and vetiver, listed in supporting data, add a bright-earth contrast under the surface.
The net effect is a daytime-friendly aromatic gourmand: sweeter than a true fougère, fresher than the rest of the VIP Men flankers.
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.
