Ultraviolet Man Paco Rabanne 2001 Eau de Toilette
Ultraviolet Man opens on something genuinely uncommon: a cool mint-and-amber pairing that reads metallic in the first few minutes — toothpaste-bright, then immediately warmed by the amber sitting right behind it.
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
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Amber
- Black Pepper
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readUltraviolet Man opens on something genuinely uncommon: a cool mint-and-amber pairing that reads metallic in the first few minutes — toothpaste-bright, then immediately warmed by the amber sitting right behind it. The contrast is the whole point of the fragrance.
The heart drops into vetiver and black pepper, dry and slightly earthy, with the spiciness pulling against the mint to keep the composition off-balance. The base is unexpected: oakmoss giving a dark green floor, vanilla rounding it out into something faintly sweet rather than sharp.
A Y2K-era cologne that still doesn't quite smell like anything else — modernity-coded in a way that hasn't dated as badly as its peers. Performance is average; character does the heavy lifting.
Scent twins
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