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 17 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.
- Chocolate70
- Sweet55
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Rose
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.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
