Cherry Ink
A boozy, nutty opening of almond and rum laced with black pepper and bergamot sets the cherry-ink intent immediately, more cocktail-bar than fruit basket.
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.
- Rum90
- Soft Spicy50
- Almond50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Almond
- Rum
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Myrrh
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readA boozy, nutty opening of almond and rum laced with black pepper and bergamot sets the cherry-ink intent immediately, more cocktail-bar than fruit basket.
The heart fills out with a warm spicy floral bouquet: cinnamon and myrrh braided with jasmine, lily of the valley, mimosa, and damask rose. The cherry of the title is conjured by the almond-rose-cinnamon braid rather than declared, giving the middle a marzipan-cherry character that is dense and slightly medicinal.
The drydown leans into a thick base: tonka, oud, benzoin, amber, vanilla, patchouli, and musk braided together as a sweet boozy resinous foundation. The overall character is a dense gourmand-oriental with a recognisable cherry-almond-rum identity, projecting strongly and lasting well into a long sweet-spicy trail.
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.
