Passion Boisee
Rum hits first — boozy, dark, and sticky-sweet — immediately cut by clove and nutmeg, which add a dry, almost medicinal spice.
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.
- Leather60
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Clove
- Nutmeg
- Oakmoss
- Rum
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readRum hits first — boozy, dark, and sticky-sweet — immediately cut by clove and nutmeg, which add a dry, almost medicinal spice. The opening feels like uncorking a spiced liqueur in a wood-panelled room.
The heart doubles down: more rum, this time threaded with oakmoss and cedar. The moss pulls the sweetness sideways into something earthy and slightly bitter, while cedar gives the spirit a dry pencil-shavings frame. Projection is strong in the first hour and then settles to a warm, intimate cloud; the texture is syrupy without being gourmand, more cocktail than dessert.
Leather, cedar and patchouli compose a leathery-resinous drydown — supple, smoky-sweet, and still spiced underneath. The overall character is a warm, masculine-leaning rum-and-leather with a chypre-like dry frame, best in cooler weather.
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.
