L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Oceanic Expedition
A sharp citrus opening — yuzu, petitgrain, bergamot — lands cold and slightly bitter, the green-tinged kind of citrus rather than the candied breakfast version.
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.
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- Aromatic50
- Aquatic50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Yuzu
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Sandalwood
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readA sharp citrus opening — yuzu, petitgrain, bergamot — lands cold and slightly bitter, the green-tinged kind of citrus rather than the candied breakfast version. Petitgrain pulls in a faint twiggy bitterness that grounds the brightness.
Ginger picks up at the heart, adding a dry, slightly peppery warmth that keeps the citrus from going simple. There's a clean spine running through this — recognizably part of the masculine aquatic family, but with a sharper, more aromatic top than typical.
The base settles into ambroxan-driven amber-woody warmth with sandalwood smoothing the edges and a clean musk closing things out. Skin-close on the dry-down, summer-leaning, the kind of structure built for hot weather and sport-casual wear without registering as heavy.
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.
