Hommage a l'Homme Eau de Toilette
Hommage à l'Homme opens with saffron and violet leaf alongside bergamot — a warm-metallic-green combination that's unusual for an EDT opening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Black Pepper50
- Musk45
- Bergamot40
- Iris Powder35
- Iris30
By the editors · 2 min readHommage à l'Homme opens with saffron and violet leaf alongside bergamot — a warm-metallic-green combination that's unusual for an EDT opening. Saffron's spiced, slightly honeyed quality gives the opening an immediate warmth, while violet leaf keeps it from becoming too soft. Bergamot provides the familiar citrus lift.
Black pepper and violet in the heart maintain the spiced character rather than pivoting to a different register. Violet here is cooler and more powdery than violet leaf, the transition from green opening to structured heart subtle and coherent.
Musk in the base is clean and minimal, letting the saffron-violet character carry the composition's final impression. Understated and well-made — better than the stripped-back note list suggests.
