Paul Smith Man
The opening pairs yuzu and bergamot with a small star-anise twist, citrus-bright with a faint liquorice cool that gives the first minutes a slightly unusual edge.
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.
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- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Yuzu
- Star Anise
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening pairs yuzu and bergamot with a small star-anise twist, citrus-bright with a faint liquorice cool that gives the first minutes a slightly unusual edge.
The heart shifts toward smoke and earth: incense lifts thin and dry while patchouli builds an earthy backbone underneath. Violet ghosts through from below, lending a powdery cool that complicates the resin without softening it much.
Tonka and violet land the close into a soft powdered finish with a quiet sweet hum. Overall the character is a smoky incense-patchouli with a violet-tinged powder undertone, dressed and slightly introspective, suited to cooler-weather wear where the resin reads fullest and the close feels intimate rather than projecting.
Scent twins
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