Abolition
Rum leads in sharp and direct, carrying a sweet-medicinal heat before ylang-ylang steps in with its heavy, almost overripe tropical florality.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Leather
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readRum leads in sharp and direct, carrying a sweet-medicinal heat before ylang-ylang steps in with its heavy, almost overripe tropical florality. The opening has a slight danger to it — sweet but dark, suggesting something aged rather than confected.
Leather anchors the dry-down with a dry, slightly smoky texture that pulls against the ylang's sweetness. Vanilla softens but doesn't sweeten excessively, giving the base a rounded, skin-warm quality.
The overall character is boozy and slightly dark, leaning animalic without being challenging. It wears close to the body by the later stages, suited to cool evenings when something discreet but unusual feels right.
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.
