L'Homme Parfum Intense
This is a leather scent built on a citrus-herbal frame rather than the reverse — black pepper and bergamot clear the throat, but they're prologue.
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.
- Leather70
- Black Pepper55
- Bergamot50
- Cedar40
- Amber35
By the editors · 2 min readThis is a leather scent built on a citrus-herbal frame rather than the reverse — black pepper and bergamot clear the throat, but they're prologue. Violet leaf introduces a cool, almost metallic green note before orange blossom brings a fleeting sweetness. Then the base takes over: leather, benzoin, and suede form a dense, slightly resinous core with cedar adding structure.
The ambergris gives it a quiet marine quality that keeps the leather from closing in on itself. It's a confident, mature masculine — assertive without aggression, better in cool weather than heat.
This wears best on skin that runs warm; the heat accelerates the leather's opening and draws out the benzoin's soft sweetness in the dry-down.
