Grey Labdanum
Rum and caramel open thick and boozy, sweetened with orange and bergamot to keep the citrus alive under the sugar.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Rum80
- Sweet60
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bitter Orange
- Rum
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Caramel
By the editors · 2 min readRum and caramel open thick and boozy, sweetened with orange and bergamot to keep the citrus alive under the sugar. Violet sneaks through the top, adding a powdery purple flicker that softens the rum's bite.
The heart turns aromatic and floral. Cinnamon and clary sage push warmth through jasmine and rose, while patchouli and lily-of-the-valley keep the bouquet from becoming heavy. The development reads complex and slightly old-school, cocktail-hour rather than dessert-buffet.
The base is where labdanum earns the name — resinous, slightly leathery, anchored by tonka, vanilla, benzoin, and a soft bed of moss. Ambergris adds a warm salinity. The drydown is a dense balsamic amber, sweet but well-fenced.
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.
