French Connection Man/Homme
Sage, orange, lemon, and grapefruit open as a fresh, aromatic-citrus accord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Orange
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Sandalwood
- Violet Leaf
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readSage, orange, lemon, and grapefruit open as a fresh, aromatic-citrus accord. The sage brings an herbal, slightly dry character that prevents the citrus from reading as purely sweet or conventional. The four-note opening is energetic and multi-dimensional.
Tonka bean, vetiver, and benzoin in the base move things toward a warm, slightly resinous drydown. Vetiver adds its characteristic earthy, smoky quality; benzoin contributes a soft sweetness; tonka bridges the two with a warm, nutty creaminess. The base is understated but effective.
The arc from herbal-citrus to warm-earthy has a classical structure that suits professional and casual settings alike. Nothing here shouts, but the composition has a coherent logic from opening to close.
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.
