Le Male Summer 2011
Mint snaps open with a chilled, toothpaste brightness that chills the lavender’s camphor edge while cardamom seeds crackle underneath, create a fleeting aromatic frost.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
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- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lavender
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMint snaps open with a chilled, toothpaste brightness that chills the lavender’s camphor edge while cardamom seeds crackle underneath, create a fleeting aromatic frost. Lavender soon steams forward, its clean floral-herbal core warmed by the residual cardamom heat so the accord smells like ironed linen left on a sunlit veranda. As the cool top fizzles, sandalwood arrives dry and blond, its milkiness pulling the lavender into a soapy barbershop skin scent that stays polite rather than sensual. A quiet musk pillows the wood, turning the blend fuzzy and close-wearing within two hours, leaving only a faint cool-herbal shimmer on shirt cuffs. Projection hovers at conversational distance; best for warm spring mornings or air-conditioned offices where the chill accord can survive.
Scent twins
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