Basile Uomo (1987) (Eau de Toilette) by Basile

Bottle Design:
Pierre Dinand

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Basile Uomo Basile 1987 Eau de Toilette

Version from 1987

8.4 / 10 42 Ratings

A popular perfume by Basile for men, released in 1987. The scent is spicy-green. It was last marketed by S.i.r.p.e.a..
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Main accords

Spicy

Green

Chypre

Citrus

Earthy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Basil

Grapefruit

Lavender

Lemon

Rosemary

Tangerine

Thyme

Vervain

Heart Notes

Clove

Blackcurrant

Galbanum

Nutmeg

Cinnamon

Rose

Jasmine

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Patchouli

Sandalwood Leather

Leather

Ratings

Scent

8.442 Ratings

Longevity

7.733 Ratings

Sillage

7.434 Ratings

Bottle

6.438 Ratings

Value for money

8.711 Ratings

Submitted by Feylamia, last update on 10/14/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Basile Uomo (1987) After Shave

Iceberg Homme (1990) Eau de Toilette

Halston 1-12 Cologne

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/24/2022

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

manlyscents
96 Reviews

manlyscents

3

My Signature Scent in 2021

A thyme-rosemary-basil-oakmoss bomb of a chypre, with lavender and a pleasant clove. The dry-down reveals a good dose of leather and some patchouli. It's a delightful manly herbal fragrance - the bottle I reached out for most in 2021.

Projection and longevity are very good. It's hard to believe this used to sell for €10 in drugstores. Basile must have been the best bottom-of-the-barrel brand in the 80s. Steer clear of the current Basile Uomo Intense as it's a bad One Million clone.

Masculinity Level: John Rambo in the forest being hunted down by the sheriff in First Blood, before the character became a caricature.

09/08/2013

cItypark
22 Reviews

cItypark

Accidentalmente

This bottle came into my possession by chance. I had ordered Basile for women (Basile Femme) and I got this as there was a small bar-code sticker with "Basile for women" on the box, even though the box itself says very clearly in big letters "BASILE UOMO" (uomo is Italian for man), but then you can not expect everyone knowing Italian.

Luckily the company I ordered it from has great costumer service and I could also keep it, so after smelling it it got a place in my collection. It is quite a herbal chypre (I would classify it as herbal also, if that was in the classification list), starting with a green blast of herbs which I can not all identify but the basil seemed most noticeable; I checked with the basil pot at the kitchen window. Oakmoss is very strong here and gives a cool forest feeling. After five, six hours leather is also noticeable, but subdued to the oakmoss. I guess that the other notes round Basile up and hold the dominant notes together without showing up front.

Basile uomo can very well be worn by women if they like their chypre green, herbal and strong. It is great for everyday and business, it goes well with jeans or business suits and is a good match for summer days.

01/12/2020

8Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Ashton
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Ashton

4

The Day Before Yesterday in the Herb Disco

Weruska & Joel, the Comanche of the Italian fragrance industry, a brother in spirit of SDI, has long since set his sights on the trail of Basile Uomo. Basile was surrounded, caught, and captured. However, we must be grateful to Weruska & Joel that this wonderful scent still exists at all. However, at prices that do not necessarily encourage consumers to reach for this fragrance. € 6.99 for After Shave and € 8.99 for Eau de Toilette cannot be right, can it (discount drugstores in Italy, not available this side of the Alps)? Trash? Rubbish?
Anyway.

Both versions, the one from 1987 and the one from 2002, the latter of which has also been revised by now, are very similar. Those who enjoy R de Capucci or Enrico Coveri Pour Homme will find what they are looking for. Forest and moss and green green green.
A herb disco like back in the day.
So in 1988 at the upper Italian lakes, in a motorboat on Lake Maggiore, hair blowing in the wind, Antonello Venditti streaming from the Denon box, fashion reminiscent of Miami Vice, and in the evening at the disco wrapped in Basile Uomo, although the pretty blonde is glued to my side. Wouldn't have missed it for the world.....
Ho finito.

08/11/2018

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Nofretete
42 Reviews

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Nofretete

Very helpful Review 7

Basil can do much more than basil

What a rarely beautiful start, bright and lively. Green in all shades, marbled with citrus yellow and lavender lilac - the citrusy and the herbal, cool and warm notes, light and dark dance around and elevate each other like Yin and Yang.

After a quarter of an hour, the scent becomes calmer, but by no means boring. Clove, nutmeg, and galbanum form a bright triad with a wealth of overtones. Up close, it smells spicy-resinous, while in projection, fine menthol accents unfold. No trace of flowers or berries. After an hour, the perfume becomes softer and earthier. Cinnamon joins in, but not the sweet-gourmand Ceylon cinnamon from the shaker, rather thick-barked cassia cinnamon from the jungle.

The enjoyment lasts for two hours until oak moss and sandalwood set in, and the scent gradually fades away, friendly, completely without leather and patchouli. It is still good, but compared to the spectacular beginning, the ending is rather inconspicuous. (This may be due to my skin.)

A fragrance for all seasons, quite cooling in summer. Multifaceted and balanced, but not pleasing: for noses that only know modern perfumes, it is certainly too demanding.