Eau de Rochas Homme
Eau de Rochas Homme opens with basil sharpening the citrus — lime, lemon, bergamot, mandarin — into something more aromatic than merely fresh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Aromatic50
- Mossy50
- Fresh Spicy50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lime
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readEau de Rochas Homme opens with basil sharpening the citrus — lime, lemon, bergamot, mandarin — into something more aromatic than merely fresh. Basil gives early-90s masculines their signature herbal intelligence, and it does so here without overwhelm.
The heart is unexpectedly fresh and light: jasmine, lily of the valley, freesia, and violet together forming a floral accord that could read feminine in isolation but sits comfortably in a masculine context, the citrus and herbal top giving it sufficient framing. The florals are structural rather than decorative.
The base reaches into chypre tradition: oakmoss and vetiver over amber, cedar, and musk — earthy, warm, and lasting. A well-built masculine with clear period character and genuine quality that holds up three decades later.
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.
