V pour Homme
The opening arrives crisp and savory, with basil and pink pepper lifting bergamot into something closer to a Mediterranean garden than a typical citrus blast.
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.
- Woody75
- Amber60
- Citrus60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Basil
- Pink Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening arrives crisp and savory, with basil and pink pepper lifting bergamot into something closer to a Mediterranean garden than a typical citrus blast. There's an herbal brightness that feels deliberate and lived-in, not just fresh for freshness' sake.
As it settles, the woods emerge with unusual warmth. Sandalwood and cedar anchor a heart where amber and musk blur the edges, while cumin adds a faintly spiced, skin-like quality that keeps the composition from turning too polite. Jasmine appears softly, more powdery than floral, woven into heliotrope and vanilla in the base for an almond-tinged sweetness that never quite becomes gourmand.
The overall effect is balanced and approachable, a woody aromatic with enough warmth to feel embracing rather than austere. It suits someone who wants refinement without severity, a scent that nods to classic masculine structures while staying quietly modern. Versatile enough for routine wear, confident enough to hold its own.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
