L'Homme
Black pepper and bergamot crack out of the top, sharp and bright, with peach softening the edges almost immediately.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Aromatic70
- Woody70
- Lavender60
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Peach
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Lavender
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and bergamot crack out of the top, sharp and bright, with peach softening the edges almost immediately. The fruit is more of a tonal accent than a centerpiece, smoothing the citrus-pepper combination.
Sage and lavender form a classic aromatic heart, dry and a little dusty, herbaceous without becoming soapy. The transition into the base is gradual.
Leather appears next, polished rather than rough, joined by cedar's pencil-shaving dryness and patchouli's earthy weight. Overall the perfume reads as a refined modern masculine fougere, balanced between aromatic freshness and a smooth woody-leather depth. Projection stays moderate, the development is steady, and the late drydown feels grounded and grown-up.
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.
