Plus Plus Masculine
The opening strikes an unusual balance: heliotrope's almond-powder sweetness meeting citrus brightness, like orange blossoms dusted with confectioner's sugar.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Sweet70
- Cinnamon60
- Aromatic50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Heliotrope
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Birch
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes an unusual balance: heliotrope's almond-powder sweetness meeting citrus brightness, like orange blossoms dusted with confectioner's sugar. It's sweeter than most men's fragrances of its era dared to be, yet there's nothing timid about it.
As it settles, sage and cardamom add herbal bite while jasmine and violet soften the edges—an androgynous heart that plays against the name's aggressive posturing. The late nineties loved this contradiction: cologne structures wrapped in gourmand warmth. Birch brings a subtle smokiness that keeps everything from tipping saccharine.
The drydown is where Diesel's spice cabinet opens fully. Tonka, cinnamon, and clove create a skin-close sweetness cut with vetiver's earthiness and patchouli's dark corners. It wears like confidence without volume—intimate rather than projecting, closer to a second skin than a statement. Best suited to someone comfortable with sweetness in their scent wardrobe, untroubled by the irony of a fragrance that softens the very masculinity it names.
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.
