Rhinoceros Edition 2020
Coffee and rum open boozy and dark, with basil's green herbal edge cutting across the sweetness and pink pepper adding a rosy heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Rum75
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Rum
- Pink Pepper
- Coffee
- Incense
- Leather
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readCoffee and rum open boozy and dark, with basil's green herbal edge cutting across the sweetness and pink pepper adding a rosy heat. The opening reads like a warm bar at midnight — sweet, smoky, savory all at once.
Incense rises into the heart, threading grey resin through the base coffee accord. Tobacco arrives slowly with its dry leaf warmth, ylang-ylang adding a banana-creamy floral note that sits oddly and intriguingly against the smoke. Leather deepens the animalic edge through the heart. The base settles into oakmoss damp green, amber resinous warm, patchouli grounding earthy. The whole progression is from sweet-boozy to leathery-resinous-mossy.
Overall a dense, smoky, boozy leather-tobacco with serious projection. Cool-weather evening. Heavy lift, long stay.
Scent twins
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