Akaba
Patchouli opens with immediate weight — earthy and slightly fermented — before lily of the valley and orange blossom soften the edges with a cool, green-floral lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Lily of the Valley
- Orange Blossom
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli opens with immediate weight — earthy and slightly fermented — before lily of the valley and orange blossom soften the edges with a cool, green-floral lift. Virginia cedar adds a dry, structural backbone alongside sandalwood's quiet warmth.
As the heart settles, tobacco begins threading through the florals, pulling the fragrance toward something more shadowed and intimate. Tonka bean bridges the gap between the floral middle and the base, smoothing the patchouli without erasing its texture.
The finish is musky and resinous, sitting close to the skin. This is an earthy, slightly androgynous composition — dense without being heavy, floral without being soft.
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.
