Mellis
Cinnamon, pink pepper, lime, clove, and bergamot crowd the opening, but the spices dominate from the first breath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Tobacco70
- Rum70
- Cinnamon55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Pink Pepper
- Lime
- Clove
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rum
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon, pink pepper, lime, clove, and bergamot crowd the opening, but the spices dominate from the first breath. The citrus reads more as accent than presence — a brief brightness over a warm, slightly hot top.
The heart shifts darker. Rum and tobacco arrive together, smoke-edged and boozy, with jasmine softening the alcoholic bite. The progression from spice into rum-tobacco gives the composition its name and its center of gravity.
Tonka, sandalwood, benzoin, cocoa, and patchouli build a base that's resinous, slightly chocolatey, and densely sweet without going gourmand. The drydown is long and warm, settling into a tobacco-tonka skin scent. Projection is strong for the first few hours, then close and lingering.
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.
