Free d'Homme
A bright lime-and-lemon opening lifts cleanly and a little tart, with a peeled-rind brightness that signals freshness rather than sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Smoky85
- Balsamic60
- Leather55
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Lemon
- Cypriol
- Saffron
- Incense
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readA bright lime-and-lemon opening lifts cleanly and a little tart, with a peeled-rind brightness that signals freshness rather than sweetness.
In the heart, cypriol and saffron arrive together: cypriol adds a smoky-rooty earthiness while saffron contributes a leathery, slightly metallic spice. The transition is striking and pivots the composition decisively away from cologne territory.
The base settles into incense, frankincense, and labdanum, building a smoky, resinous floor with labdanum adding a warm amber-balsamic depth. There is a meditative, almost church-like quality to the drydown that contrasts with the bright opening. The overall character is masculine-coded and adult, suited to cool weather and evenings, with strong longevity and a steady, well-defined smoky projection throughout the wear.
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.
