Black O Man
Basil, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot open green and bracing — a classic herbal-citrus top with the basil providing aromatic backbone and the citruses keeping things lifted.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Mint
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readBasil, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot open green and bracing — a classic herbal-citrus top with the basil providing aromatic backbone and the citruses keeping things lifted. The opening is bright and decisively masculine-coded.
Gardenia, mint, nutmeg, and rose compose the heart. The mint continues the green direction; nutmeg adds dry warmth; gardenia and rose smooth the edges without sweetening. The middle reads aromatic-floral, slightly soapy in a polished way.
White musk, tonka bean, leather, cedar, and patchouli make the base. The drydown shifts woody with a faint leather edge and a soft tonka warmth. The cedar dominates the wood pile, patchouli adds earthy depth. Projection is steady, longevity solid, the overall character clean-aromatic-leather rather than gourmand.
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.
