Versace · 2016

Dylan Blue Pour Homme

Mid-range$$, 2 of 5
Versace asks $129 for 100 ml
100 ml$129

VersionEau de Toilette

Watery bergamot, grapefruit and fig leaf over black pepper and salty ambergris-like woods, drying to incense, tonka and musk.

Versace says

You’ll smell water notes, fig leaves, bergamot, grapefruit, violet leaves, patchouli, papyrus, black pepper, Ambroxan, musk, tonka beans, saffron and frankincense.

More from Versace’s description

It also mentions Calabrian Bergamot, Acquatic Notes, Papyrus Wood, Ambrox, Patchouli Bio, Mineral Musk, Tonka Bean and Pyrogéné Incense.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Dylan Blue Pour Homme’s scent picture, a draft: sea shell and melon rind, fig, bergamot, grapefruit, violet, patchouli drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Dylan Blue Pour Homme, top notes: Sea shell and melon rind, Fig, Bergamot, Grapefruit

Heartas it settles

Dylan Blue Pour Homme, heart: Violet, Patchouli, Papyrus, Black pepper, Ambroxan (ambergris), Mineral musk

Dry-downwhat stays

Dylan Blue Pour Homme, dry-down: Musk, Tonka (coumarin), Saffron, Frankincense

What’s inside it

What Versace names

Fig leavesBergamotGrapefruitViolet leavesPatchouliPapyrusBlack pepperAmbroxan (ambergris)MuskTonka beansSaffronFrankincenseAmbrox (ambergris)Mineral Musk

What the label names

8 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender3 florals1 sweet1 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals3

CitronellolGeraniolFarnesol

Sweet1

Coumarin (tonka)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
5 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell5

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

OutlandsAmouage · shares bergamot, patchouli, ambergris, cashmere knit and 2 more$475 for 100 ml
Detour NoirAl Haramain · shares bergamot, grapefruit, violet (sweet violet), patchouli and 2 more$66.67 for 100 ml · about half of Dylan Blue Pour Homme’s $129
Eilish No. 2Billie Eilish · shares bergamot, papyrus, black pepper, cashmere knit and 1 more$82 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.