Cafe Ambre Noir
Rum opens blackstrap-molasses dark, its burnt-sugar bite immediately tethered to freshly-ground espresso that carries a faintly oily, almost green-roast bitterness.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Coffee
- Tobacco
- Coffee
- Tonka Bean
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readRum opens blackstrap-molasses dark, its burnt-sugar bite immediately tethered to freshly-ground espresso that carries a faintly oily, almost green-roast bitterness. Within minutes the coffee folds into a tobacco heart whose dry, hay-leaf crackle is lacquered with a ribbon of caramel-tonka sweetness, so the accord reads like a boozy mocha cigar. The base amplifies that duality: labdanum and ambergris stretch a leathery, salt-skin amber while cocoa, patchouli and castoreum deepen the roast, letting the coffee re-emerge as a smoky, almost animalic resin that clings to clothes. Projection stays chest-radius for eight hours, dense enough for cool fall nights yet smooth enough for a leather-jacket date.
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.
