Hm
HM opens with black currant and lavender — fruity-aromatic, slightly tart, a 1990s masculine opening that now reads with pleasing dated character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Tonka55
- Jasmine50
- Amber50
- Sandalwood45
- Lavender45
By the editors · 2 min readHM opens with black currant and lavender — fruity-aromatic, slightly tart, a 1990s masculine opening that now reads with pleasing dated character. The transition into the heart is the composition's surprise: jasmine, lily of the valley, iris, and rose together make a fully-formed white floral accord that sits squarely in feminine territory, worn without apology in a men's fragrance.
The base is where HM earns its reputation: chocolate alongside tonka, sandalwood, and amber. This is the decade of Angel — chocolate in fine fragrance as serious material rather than novelty. Here it lands warmly, not candy-sweet but rich, the chocolate giving the warm amber base a depth it wouldn't otherwise have.
An anachronism in the best sense — worth seeking for the base alone.
