Palindrome III
Rum dominates immediately, its molasses thickness sweetened by osmanthus’ apricot leather nuance, creating a boozy, dried-fruit opening that feels almost sticky.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Patchouli70
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Patchouli
- Osmanthus
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readRum dominates immediately, its molasses thickness sweetened by osmanthus’ apricot leather nuance, creating a boozy, dried-fruit opening that feels almost sticky. Patchouli arrives within minutes, earth and cocoa nib cutting the sugar, drying the accord to a dark tobacco-like leaf. Mandarin stays backgrounded, a candied peel whisper that flashes briefly then folds into the rum’s caramelised warmth, preventing total opacity. On skin the heart stays low and close: patchouli’s camphorous edge softens while osmanthus’ leather facet expands, so the wear becomes a muted, resinous skin-warm scent rather than a loud cocktail. Projection drops to intimate within two hours; longevity settles at skin-level for most of a workday. Cool evenings and unstructured social settings suit its restrained diffusive radius.
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.
