Passion
Rum opens immediately and boldly — not the sweet cocktail variety but something closer to dark, barrel-aged spirit with a dry, slightly scorched edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Balsamic60
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Olibanum
- Amber
- Saffron
- Rum
- Benzoin
- Amber
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readRum opens immediately and boldly — not the sweet cocktail variety but something closer to dark, barrel-aged spirit with a dry, slightly scorched edge. It dominates the first act completely.
Olibanum in the heart brings a resinous, smoke-tinged dryness that pushes the composition toward the incense end of the spectrum. Saffron — metallic and faintly leathery — adds texture and complexity without overwhelming the resin.
Amber and benzoin round out the dry-down into something warm and slightly sweet. The overall character is dense, uncompromising, and leans masculine in its construction. Best suited to cool-weather evenings where its intensity can breathe properly.
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.
