1881 Men
Cerruti 1881 for men opens with a bracing lavender-bergamot chord sharpened by galbanum's green snap—a classic masculine salvo that feels tailored and composed, like a pressed linen shirt.
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.
- Lavender90
- Earthy80
- Mossy70
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCerruti 1881 for men opens with a bracing lavender-bergamot chord sharpened by galbanum's green snap—a classic masculine salvo that feels tailored and composed, like a pressed linen shirt. The vetiver arrives early and anchors everything, its earthy, slightly citric profile threading through the heart where ylang-ylang and rose add a discreet floral roundness rather than sweetness.
The base settles into a mossy, woodsy comfort typical of late-eighties masculines: sandalwood and oakmoss provide heft, cedar gives structure, patchouli deepens without dominating. The musk underneath is clean rather than animalic. The overall impression is restrained and professional, a fougère-adjacent scent that leans aromatic and woody rather than powdery. It suits the kind of man who wears a watch with a leather strap and prefers understatement to volume—office-appropriate in the best sense, with enough character to avoid blandness.
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.
