Scandal Pour Homme Parfum Cologne
Scandal pour Homme Parfum Cologne opens with a complex herbal citrus: lavender, basil, tarragon, and mint over bergamot and petitgrain — seven notes that somehow cohere rather than cancel each other out.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Lavender80
- Bergamot70
- Tonka70
- Amber70
- Vetiver60
By the editors · 2 min readScandal pour Homme Parfum Cologne opens with a complex herbal citrus: lavender, basil, tarragon, and mint over bergamot and petitgrain — seven notes that somehow cohere rather than cancel each other out. There's a freshness that smells intentionally structured, like a walk through a kitchen garden distilled into an opening accord.
The heart is understated by comparison: jasmine, lily of the valley, and violet provide a light, clean floral bridge that doesn't upstage what came before and doesn't try to hold up what follows.
The base is where the Roja Dove house aesthetic becomes fully legible: ambergris, labdanum, tonka, vetiver, moss, and spice in a dense, velvety arrangement that smells expensive because it is. A cologne in the classical tradition made operatic — tailored, but formally so.
