Kenzo Jungle Homme
Kenzo Jungle Homme arrived in 1998 as one of the warmer, spicier masculines of a decade that preferred aquatics and aromatic freshness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Cinnamon55
- Amber55
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Lime
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Amber
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readKenzo Jungle Homme arrived in 1998 as one of the warmer, spicier masculines of a decade that preferred aquatics and aromatic freshness. The opening leads with citrus — lime, lemon, bergamot — sharpened by cinnamon in a way that reads as tropical rather than festive. Cardamom and nutmeg in the heart sustain the spice dimension before amber begins pulling the composition toward resin. The base is where the jungle metaphor earns its keep: sandalwood, guaiac wood, vetiver, cedar, and benzoin building a dense, warm, earthy-woody structure. Complex by era standards — a masculine that rewards those who want depth over convenience.
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.
