Rum

Rum in perfume recalls the spirit rather than any plant: sweet, boozy and warm, with notes of molasses, dried fruit, vanilla and oak. Perfumers build it from aroma molecules and accords of sugar, wood and spice, because a spirit cannot be extracted into a perfume oil. The result is rich, a little syrupy and slightly smoky. It adds a polished, convivial warmth to tobacco, leather and gourmand blends, and a darker sweetness to fruit. In small doses it gives a fragrance a golden, mellow opening.

In this range it mostly sits in the top, where its boozy sweetness opens the fragrance and then gives way to vanilla, wood and spice.

Top note

24 perfumes

Heart note

9 perfumes

Base note

4 perfumes