Costume National Homme Parfum
Costume National brings a fashion-house minimalism to fragrance, and Homme Parfum exemplifies it: a clean citrus-spice opening — grapefruit, bergamot, cardamom — precise and slightly sweet before the composition pivots decisively toward earth and resin.
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.
- Patchouli60
- Balsamic55
- Citrus55
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readCostume National brings a fashion-house minimalism to fragrance, and Homme Parfum exemplifies it: a clean citrus-spice opening — grapefruit, bergamot, cardamom — precise and slightly sweet before the composition pivots decisively toward earth and resin. The heart is where the character lives: cinnamon brings warmth, vetiver contributes an earthy, slightly smoky depth, and patchouli provides the dark, resinous backbone that anchors the whole structure. Nothing in this heart is casual; the three notes work together with the cohesion of a deliberate palette rather than an assembly line.
The base is smooth and authoritative: sandalwood, labdanum, and musk create a warm, skin-close drydown that lasts well into the day. This is an accomplished oriental masculine that earns the Parfum designation — less sweet than many contemporaries, leaning dry and resinous rather than gourmand. The contrast between the fresh citrus opening and the earthy-resinous heart is the composition's most interesting movement. Suited to fall and winter.
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.
