Le Mâle Jean Paul Gaultier 1995 After Shave Lotion
Opens cold and bracing: mint's frosty bite, tarragon's anise-herbal edge, lavender's lifted dry petal, cardamom's warm creamy spice, and bergamot's tart brightness all hitting at once.
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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.
- Aromatic70
- Lavender55
- Herbal50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Tarragon
- Lavender
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Neroli
By the editors · 2 min readOpens cold and bracing: mint's frosty bite, tarragon's anise-herbal edge, lavender's lifted dry petal, cardamom's warm creamy spice, and bergamot's tart brightness all hitting at once. The top reads aggressively aromatic and herbaceous, the kind of opening that signals classic masculine cologne.
The heart shifts warmer as cinnamon adds a dry spicy thread and neroli softens the green-bitter edges with a honeyed floral touch. The transition is the most interesting beat — herbal cool giving way to warm spice.
Tonka bean, sandalwood, amber, and vanilla close the drydown with a creamy oriental-fougère base, sweet but not gourmand. The finish reads as a sweetened lavender-vanilla with woody anchor — gentler than the opening suggested, and lingering pleasantly close to skin.
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.
