Nightfall Patchouli
Bergamot and labdanum open together — the citrus fleeting, the resin already pulling toward something darker.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Balsamic70
- Patchouli70
- Soft Spicy50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Labdanum
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Bulgarian Rose
- Clove
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and labdanum open together — the citrus fleeting, the resin already pulling toward something darker. Cinnamon arrives in the heart with warmth but no sharpness, iris lending its earthy powder, Bulgarian rose adding a deep floral quality that feels more velvety than fresh.
The base surrenders to patchouli and benzoin: earthy, resinous, sweet-dark. This is a nighttime fragrance that moves deliberately through its phases — nothing is rushed, and the dry-down lingers. The rose never plays romantic; here it reads as ingredient rather than gesture, absorbed into the resinous structure below. Dense and close-wearing, suited for cold weather and unambiguously nocturnal contexts.
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.
