V for Men
The composition is short on overture and long on resolution.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Woody60
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Orris
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Amberwood
- Vetiver
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readThe composition is short on overture and long on resolution. Pepper takes the lead — black and pink together — with nutmeg adding warmth and orris a cool, rooty edge. The first impression is dry, peppery and faintly powdery rather than citrus-bright.
As the spice loosens, the orris stretches into a quiet floral-powder bridge, never quite stepping forward, before yielding to the base.
The dry-down is the body of the perfume: amberwood, cedar, vetiver and olibanum knit a smooth, slightly resinous wood structure, with vanilla rounding the edges. It projects steadily without being loud and wears comfortably across cool-weather days and into evening — versatile for office through dinner without changing register much.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
