Jimmy Choo Man Blue
The opening arrives brisk and aromatic, with lavender and clary sage cutting through bergamot's citrus brightness while black pepper adds a dry, crackling edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Woody75
- Lavender70
- Vanilla65
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Pineapple
- Apple
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening arrives brisk and aromatic, with lavender and clary sage cutting through bergamot's citrus brightness while black pepper adds a dry, crackling edge. It's the kind of clean freshness that feels deliberate rather than generic, anchored by herbal depth that keeps it from drifting into purely aquatic territory.
As it settles, an unexpected sweetness emerges—pineapple and apple lending juicy brightness to a leather accord that stays soft and supple rather than animalic. The contrast between fruit and hide creates a modern tension, neither tropical nor overly masculine, with ambergris adding a subtle marine salinity beneath the surface.
The base resolves into familiar woody-vanilla terrain, sandalwood and vetiver providing structure while patchouli darkens the edges. It's a fragrance built for accessibility—polished enough for office wear, interesting enough to hold attention, engineered for the man who wants something blue-bottled and approachable but not entirely predictable.
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.
