Armani Code A-List 2018
Armani Code A-List is an efficient masculine fougère built for evening appeal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Lavender70
- Sweet60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Green Mandarin
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Tonka Bean
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readArmani Code A-List is an efficient masculine fougère built for evening appeal. Bergamot and green mandarin open with a clean citrus brightness that dissolves quickly into a lavender heart — aromatic, slightly herbal, nothing surprising. The base is where the construction earns its character: tonka bean adds bittersweet creaminess, while guaiac wood brings a quiet smokiness without heft.
The whole composition is trim and intentional, never lingering in any phase too long. It sits closer to the original Code's DNA than some of its flankers, prioritizing wearability over novelty. Think boardroom-to-bar — confident without being loud.
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.
