Homem Verse
Ginger and petitgrain open Homem Verse with a clean, herbal brightness, grapefruit adding lift while cardamom contributes a dry spice undercurrent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Lavender70
- Citrus60
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Petitgrain
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Galbanum
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and petitgrain open Homem Verse with a clean, herbal brightness, grapefruit adding lift while cardamom contributes a dry spice undercurrent. The opening feels structured without stiffness — a measured introduction. Lavender and galbanum form an unusual heart: the lavender provides the expected fougère anchor, but galbanum's bitter-green edge keeps the composition angular rather than soft. Violet softens the transition without smudging the lines.
Sandalwood, oakmoss, and cashmeran carry the close — a quiet, skin-proximate finish designed for Brazil's warm climate. Vetiver adds just enough root-earthiness to distinguish the base from simpler aromatic woods. A functional everyday masculine with better compositional ambition than its price point implies.
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.
