This Is Him!
This Is Him opens with a jolt of black pepper and grapefruit—crisp citrus cut with heat, more rock show than boardroom.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Smoky85
- Warm Spicy80
- Woody75
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readThis Is Him opens with a jolt of black pepper and grapefruit—crisp citrus cut with heat, more rock show than boardroom. The incense arrives quickly, blurring into a haze of vanilla that softens the edges without sweetening them entirely. It's smokier than gourmand, though the vanilla keeps things from turning austere.
The sandalwood base holds it all together with a warm, slightly powdery finish that wears close to the skin. What emerges is a fragrance caught between polish and rebellion: clean enough for daily wear, rough enough to suggest a leather jacket casually slung over a chair. It doesn't announce itself from across a room but works well for someone who wants texture without theatrics—urban, straightforward, unapologetically modern.
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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.




