Vetiver & Rum
Rum opens with a boozy sweetness that immediately grabs attention, its molasses richness cut by lemon's sharp edge and orange blossom's honeyed lift.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Lavender
- Black Pepper
- Mimosa
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readRum opens with a boozy sweetness that immediately grabs attention, its molasses richness cut by lemon's sharp edge and orange blossom's honeyed lift. The heart adds lavender's clean aromatic streak, black pepper's crackle, and nutmeg's dry warmth, while mimosa contributes a soft powdery yellow-floral nuance that keeps the composition from turning too dark. As the spices settle, vetiver emerges as the dominant bass note, its grassy earthiness amplified by patchouli's camphoraceous depth and oakmoss's forest-floor dampness. The dry-down stays firmly rooted in this earthy-mossy territory, with only faint echoes of the opening citrus and the rum's residual caramelized warmth lingering at the edges. Projection sits at arm's length for six hours, making it office-safe yet distinctive enough for evening wear in fall through early spring.
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.
