Essence de Patchouli
A single rose opens the scent with a soft red petal warmth, providing a brief floral lead before the patchouli theme takes over.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Guaiac Wood
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
- Musk
- Guaiac Wood
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA single rose opens the scent with a soft red petal warmth, providing a brief floral lead before the patchouli theme takes over. The first impression is restrained.
The heart is sparse and quickly cedes to the base, where patchouli dominates with its earthy-cocoa depth. Guaiac wood and Virginia cedar reinforce the wooden structure, the guaiac adding a faint smoky resinous edge.
Vanilla appears as a quiet sweetener under a clean musk, softening the patchouli's rough edges without disguising them. Overall this is a patchouli-forward woody scent with a rose top and minimal evolution, traditional in posture. Best across cool seasons in casual or evening wear.
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.
