Portrait For Men
Pink pepper and cardamom crackle open, releasing a dry, papery spice that lifts the bergamot’s faint citrus snap into something more angular than bright.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Myrrh
- Labdanum
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and cardamom crackle open, releasing a dry, papery spice that lifts the bergamot’s faint citrus snap into something more angular than bright. Within fifteen minutes the spices fold into cedar’s clean pencil-shavings wood, letting labdanum’s sticky resin seep up from below to create a muted amber glow that feels lightly smoky rather than sweet. Myrrh arrives late, adding a cool, incense-dusted thickness that presses the cedar downward and quiets the composition to a soft, skin-close hum where musk supplies a pale, laundry-fresh cushion. Projection stays reserved—an arm-length veil for the first two hours—then settles into a woody-balsamic skin scent that persists through a workday. Cool autumn days and smart-casual offices fit its polite restraint; heat flattens the spices and exaggerates the musk.
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.
