Irish Coffee
Rum opens with a boozy, molasses-rich weight that immediately blankets the fresh lily and rose petals, bending their floral edges into something slightly fermented and sticky.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
- Coffee
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
- Cypriol
By the editors · 2 min readRum opens with a boozy, molasses-rich weight that immediately blankets the fresh lily and rose petals, bending their floral edges into something slightly fermented and sticky. The heart coffee note lands dark-roasted and bitter, cutting the sugar while amplifying the rum’s burn, creating a swirling mocha-toned accord that feels both warm and slightly metallic. As it settles, sandalwood and patchouli push forward, adding dry wood dust that soaks up excess sweetness, while benzoin and vanilla re-caramelize the base, letting the coffee soften into a creamy latte veil. Oakmoss and cypriol inject a cool, earthy hum underneath, preventing gourmand collapse and extending wear. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, ideal for cool autumn evenings or after-dinner lounges where sweetness won’t cloy.
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.
