Rumeur (original)
Plum and peach open with lush fruitiness, quickly grounded by bergamot's citrus brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Tobacco60
- Mossy60
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Peach
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readPlum and peach open with lush fruitiness, quickly grounded by bergamot's citrus brightness. Jasmine emerges with cardamom and nutmeg adding a warm-spicy floral heart that feels opulent and slightly animalic from civet. Sandalwood and oakmoss provide a woody-mossy base, while leather and tobacco add dry, smoky texture alongside earthy vetiver and patchouli. Vanilla softens the animalic edge with subtle sweetness. The composition evolves from fruity-floral to a complex leather-chypre dry-down with significant projection that lasts over twelve hours. Best for cool weather evenings and formal occasions where its bold character can fully develop.
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.
