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David Beckham · Est. 2008

Signature for Him

Signature for Him opens with a clean aquatic-citrus combination: watermelon's light, watery sweetness alongside sea notes' saline freshness and a bright mandarin lift.

ConcentrationFragrance
Formasculine
Released2008
Statusenriched
2008 · Fragrance
mar·oak·ozo·mus
Rating
3.9
0.5k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 9 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.

  • Marine
    50
  • Oakmoss
    35
  • Ozonic
    30
  • Musk
    30
  • Orange
    25

By the editors · 2 min readSignature for Him opens with a clean aquatic-citrus combination: watermelon's light, watery sweetness alongside sea notes' saline freshness and a bright mandarin lift. The opening is inoffensive and seasonal — immediately legible as a summer casual fragrance without demanding attention.

Juniper and cypress in the heart add dry, resinous herbal character, with lantana's slightly honeyed, bitter-citrus quality giving the mid-section more interest than expected. The Mediterranean-inflected heart is more considered than the breezy opening implies.

Oakmoss, amber, and patchouli in the base deliver genuine character — the oakmoss contributes a dry, slightly earthy quality that anchors the composition in a near-chypre register. For a celebrity release, the dry-down shows better bones than the bottle suggests. A decent warm-weather masculine with an unexpectedly dignified finish.

Filed: David BeckhamSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap