Oscar de la Renta Pour Lui
Pour Lui opens with the assertive green-herbal swagger of 1980 masculinity — sage, basil, galbanum, and lavender in a cool aromatic rush cut by anise and bergamot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 23 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.
- Mossy65
- Lavender55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Lavender
- Basil
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readPour Lui opens with the assertive green-herbal swagger of 1980 masculinity — sage, basil, galbanum, and lavender in a cool aromatic rush cut by anise and bergamot. Cinnamon warms the heart, joined by vetiver and patchouli, building into a dry, slightly smoky woody accord. Oakmoss, leather, and labdanum in the base complete the chypre structure with conviction. The general list extends further into rosemary, thyme, and clary sage — this is a fragrance with a kitchen-garden opening and a forest floor finish. Constructed for a time when masculine fragrance had both ambition and volume. It projects without apology and lingers long after.
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.
