The Man Of Sport
Opens with ginger and black pepper, the spice immediately dry and sharp rather than warming.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Lavender
- Violet
- Clary Sage
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with ginger and black pepper, the spice immediately dry and sharp rather than warming. There is no citrus to round it off, so the first minutes feel direct and slightly austere.
The heart introduces lavender, violet and clary sage, building an aromatic-floral accord that softens the opening spice without sweetening it. Violet provides a quiet powdery touch that contrasts with the herbal lavender, while the clary sage adds a slightly nutty, tea-like quality.
The base of sandalwood, cypriol and patchouli pulls the composition into smoky, earthy wood territory. Cypriol in particular gives the drydown a leathery-smoky character that the soft heart did not predict. Projection is moderate, and the dry-down reads dark and grounded.
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.
