Old School Bench
Bright lemon and bergamot open with a sharp, almost bracing citrus clarity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Citrus60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Rum
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBright lemon and bergamot open with a sharp, almost bracing citrus clarity. The rum note enters quickly, lending warmth and a faintly boozy sweetness that softens the initial bite without turning sugary.
As the composition settles, cocoa and vanilla weave into the vetiver, adding depth and a dry, slightly earthy quality. Cedar keeps things from going fully gourmand, pushing it toward warm wood rather than dessert. Patchouli adds a subtle dark murkiness underneath.
The result is a rum-forward, woody-earthy fragrance that feels rooted in barbershop and old-world masculine traditions. It wears close to skin in its later hours, comfortable rather than showy.
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.
