A*Men Pure Malt Creation
A*Men Pure Malt Creation opens with an immediate sweetness that recalls malted barley and burnt caramel, as if walking into a distillery mid-production.
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.
- Amber75
- Rum70
- Caramel70
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readA*Men Pure Malt Creation opens with an immediate sweetness that recalls malted barley and burnt caramel, as if walking into a distillery mid-production. The sweetness is substantial but dry-edged, avoiding the syrupy quality of some gourmands through a charred, woody undertone that suggests whiskey casks and roasted grain. There's a faint smokiness threading through, never quite peat-heavy but present enough to anchor the composition.
As it develops, the fragrance reveals its structure: a persistent malt core surrounded by dark vanilla and a resinous quality that adds depth without turning medicinal. The sweetness mellows slightly but never disappears, maintaining that liquid amber character throughout wear.
This is unabashedly masculine and occupies a specific space between gourmand and woody oriental. It works for someone who finds straight amber too austere and pure gourmands too dessert-like, offering instead the adult sweetness of aged spirits and wood smoke.
Scent twins
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