In The Mood For Love Man
Lavender and grapefruit open cleanly, the citrus providing a brief lift before cardamom starts sharpening the accord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Lavender
- Grapefruit
- Orange Blossom
- Cardamom
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and grapefruit open cleanly, the citrus providing a brief lift before cardamom starts sharpening the accord. Orange blossom sits mid-composition, adding a soft white-floral warmth without turning sweet.
As the fragrance settles, tonka bean and cedar take over, grounding the lavender into something drier and more resinous. Patchouli adds depth in the base without going dark or earthy — it reads more like texture than a distinct note.
The result is a structured aromatic fougère with spiced edges. It sits in familiar masculine territory but the cardamom-over-tonka transition keeps it from feeling flat. Best in cooler weather.
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.
