Patchouli Essentiel
Myrrh opens resinous and slightly bitter, setting a dark incense tone that clings to skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Smoky60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Myrrh
- Opoponax
- Clary Sage
- Vetiver
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readMyrrh opens resinous and slightly bitter, setting a dark incense tone that clings to skin. Clary sage arrives early, its green-herbal lift cutting the myrrh’s density while opoponax adds a softer, sweeter balsam that blurs the edges. Patchouli dominates the base, earthy and chocolate-rich, cushioned by vanrrhic vanilla and a dry amber accord that feels more labdanum than sugary. Vetiver threads smoke through the late dry-down, keeping the palette austere rather than gourmand. Projection remains close, a skin-level incense cloud that lasts well into evening. Cool nights and smart-casual settings suit its restrained gravity.
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.
