Fil d'Or No3
Rum opens with a boozy, slightly caramel-tinged sweetness — the dark spiced kind rather than clear white rum, with hints of brown sugar and oak coming through.
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
- Incense
- Patchouli
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readRum opens with a boozy, slightly caramel-tinged sweetness — the dark spiced kind rather than clear white rum, with hints of brown sugar and oak coming through. The entry is dense and immediately distinctive, with no fresh or citrus phase.
Incense and patchouli form a brief but assertive heart. Incense adds a dry, slightly lemony-resinous smoke; patchouli contributes earthy purple depth with a chocolatey undertone. Together they pull the rum into smoky, leather-adjacent territory, more sophisticated than gourmand.
Vanilla alone anchors the base. The vanilla coats the rum-incense-patchouli structure in creamy warmth, smoothing the smoke and earth into a cohesive drydown. Smoky boozy-vanilla — cold-weather flattering, evening-leaning, niche in construction.
Scent twins
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