Scent Stories Vol.1/Ch.08 - Old School Bench
Lemon and bergamot open with a brisk, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly gives way to a boozy heart where dark rum dominates, its molasses richness thickening the air while cocoa adds a bitter-chocolate depth that keeps the accord from turning syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Rum
- Cocoa
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a brisk, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly gives way to a boozy heart where dark rum dominates, its molasses richness thickening the air while cocoa adds a bitter-chocolate depth that keeps the accord from turning syrupy. As the heart settles, vetiver emerges with a dry, rooty smoke that slices through the rum’s sweetness, while patchouli contributes an earthy, slightly camphoraceous facet that anchors the composition in cool soil. Vanilla arrives late, not as a dessert note but as a soft, smoky ember that rounds the rough edges of vetiver and patchouli, creating a worn-leather impression reminiscent of an old wooden bench polished by decades of spilled drinks and pocket change.
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.
