Yohji Homme 1999
Opens with a strange, beautiful pairing — lavender and bergamot lifted by the licorice-cool sharpness of anise.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Cinnamon
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a strange, beautiful pairing — lavender and bergamot lifted by the licorice-cool sharpness of anise. The top reads aromatic and slightly medicinal, herbal in a way that suggests apothecary more than barbershop.
Cinnamon arrives at the heart like a sudden warm hand, but the real character lives in the base. Tonka and rum braid into something dark and boozy; coffee adds a roasted bitterness; leather supplies a soft, worn texture; sandalwood and cedar hold the structure. The contrast — cold herbal top, dark-warm sweet base — gives the composition unusual depth and a somewhat brooding character. Projection is moderate; longevity reaches well into the night, leaving a leather-coffee whisper on fabric.
Overall an aromatic gourmand with leather and cafe-bar undertones — distinctive, not quite like anything else.
Scent twins
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