A*Men
A-Men opens with a startling coolness—mint and lavender cutting through the air like menthol against skin—before plunging into something far stranger and more indulgent.
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.
- Patchouli95
- Caramel90
- Sweet80
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Honey
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readA-Men opens with a startling coolness—mint and lavender cutting through the air like menthol against skin—before plunging into something far stranger and more indulgent. Within minutes, the freshness gives way to a thick, sweet tar of patchouli, caramel, and coffee, notes that shouldn't belong together but somehow fuse into a dense, almost edible darkness. The effect is disorienting: clean and dirty, fresh and gourmand, transparent and opaque all at once.
As it settles, the composition reveals its real character—a massive, unapologetic statement fragrance built on contrasts. The vanilla and tonka bean smooth out the rough edges without quite civilizing them, while the patchouli remains present throughout, earthy and almost fungal beneath the sweetness. It's divisive by design, impossible to ignore.
A-Men suits those who want their presence announced rather than suggested, who appreciate provocation over polish. This is scent as declaration.
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.
