Speakeasy
Speakeasy opens with a jolt of lime-spiked rum that feels more like a real cocktail than a sweet confection—sharp, boozy, almost astringent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Tobacco80
- Leather70
- Sweet60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Lime
- Orange
- Mint
- White Musk
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readSpeakeasy opens with a jolt of lime-spiked rum that feels more like a real cocktail than a sweet confection—sharp, boozy, almost astringent. The mint arrives quickly, cool and medicinal rather than toothpaste-bright, cutting through the spirit with herbal precision. It's a surprisingly edgy start for a house known for cognac-soaked classicism.
The base eventually settles into familiar territory: tobacco and leather softened by tonka and amber, with just enough labdanum and styrax to add resinous weight. The rum never fully disappears, threading through as a caramelized undertone that keeps things from turning too polished or genteel.
This is Prohibition-era atmosphere without the usual speakeasy tropes of jazz-club smokiness or gangster swagger. It wears more like a private moment with a flask and a cigarette than a crowded basement bar—intimate, slightly rough around the edges, built for someone who prefers their elegance with a deliberate streak of disrepair.
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.
