By Man
By Man, often labeled simply By, is a discontinued amber-woody from 1997 that has built a cult on the secondhand market.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Woody70
- Amber70
- Leather65
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Artemisia
- Lavender
- Ambrox
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBy Man, often labeled simply By, is a discontinued amber-woody from 1997 that has built a cult on the secondhand market. Nutmeg and pepper open it dark and dry, with no citrus relief — the composition wants to feel adult from the first second.
Lavender and artemisia keep the heart aromatic and slightly bitter, more apothecary than fougère. The drydown is where the perfume lives: sandalwood, tobacco, leather, amber, and guaiac wood, layered in close proximity, smoky-sweet rather than sweet-smoky.
It reads as a 90s Italian masculine when those still meant something. Discontinued status pushes prices up, but the composition itself is straightforward — a warm, leathered tobacco for cold-weather evenings.
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.
