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
- Bergamot55
- Vetiver55
- Labdanum55
- Cinnamon45
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.
