I-II Montecristo
Rum opens immediately and without apology — sweet, slightly fermented, and dense.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Rum95
- Balsamic80
- Tobacco70
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Ambrette Seed
- Rum
- Labdanum
- Benzoin
- Tobacco
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readRum opens immediately and without apology — sweet, slightly fermented, and dense. It dominates the first impression and sets the tone for everything that follows. This is not a casual or light fragrance.
Benzoin and tobacco emerge in the heart, adding a deep resinous sweetness alongside a dry, leafy smokiness. The combination pushes the fragrance into dark, slightly edgy territory. Patchouli and styrax in the base deepen the resin further, contributing earthiness and a balsamic, slightly medicinal undertone.
The overall character is rich, heavy, and deliberately provocative — rum-soaked balsamic resin over smoky tobacco and earthy patchouli. An evening fragrance for cold weather, not for timid contexts.
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.
