Patchouli Noir
Pink pepper crackles first, scattering rosy heat across bergamot’s brisk citrus flash.
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
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Osmanthus
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, scattering rosy heat across bergamot’s brisk citrus flash. The heart folds powdery orris butter around osmanthus’ apricot suede, blunting spice and creating a muted floral haze. Labdanum’s molten resin seeps downward, anchoring the composition in leathery sweetness while feeding patchouli’s dark chocolate earthiness. Over hours the osmanthus fades, letting patchouli dominate: dry cocoa leaf, faintly camphorous, streaked with the lingering resinous amber of labdanum. Projection stays within arm’s length; the scent feels dusk-leaning yet office-safe under light application.
Scent twins
In this family
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.