Scandal Pour Homme Absolu
Scandal Pour Homme Absolu opens with bright mandarin cutting through a herbal clary sage accord, creating an immediate freshness that feels slightly resinous at the edges.
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.
- Aromatic70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Mandarin
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readScandal Pour Homme Absolu opens with bright mandarin cutting through a herbal clary sage accord, creating an immediate freshness that feels slightly resinous at the edges. The combination reads clean but grounded rather than purely citric.
As it settles, tonka bean and sandalwood take over, rounding out the sage into something warmer and more skin-close. The tonka brings a soft almond-like sweetness without leaning heavily gourmand — it stays restrained and cozy rather than dessert-like.
The overall character is a warm aromatic woody that skews masculine but accessible. Projection is moderate; this sits closer to the skin than it announces itself. Best suited to cooler weather where the wood and tonka can breathe fully.
Scent twins
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