Ocean for Men
Ginger and bergamot open with warm spice and citrus brightness — familiar masculine territory, with ginger's bite kept in check by bergamot's lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Sage
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and bergamot open with warm spice and citrus brightness — familiar masculine territory, with ginger's bite kept in check by bergamot's lift. The opening is clean and approachable.
The base is substantial: sandalwood, amber, and vanilla provide warm, creamy depth, while ambergris adds a subtle marine-skin facet. Cedar contributes dry woody structure to keep the warmth from becoming too dense.
The overall composition reads as a warm, accessible oriental-woody — a style suited to cool-weather casual and work wear. The ambergris prevents it from being a purely generic amber-vanilla structure, adding a slightly salty, oceanic undertone that keeps the base from closing in on itself.
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.
