Patchouli Impérial
Patchouli Impérial opens with a breath of bergamot — brief and luminous — before patchouli asserts itself alongside cinnamon and rose.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Patchouli80
- Amber60
- Vanilla55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Patchouli
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli Impérial opens with a breath of bergamot — brief and luminous — before patchouli asserts itself alongside cinnamon and rose. The heart is warm and spiced rather than earthy in the classic sense; this reads as polished and deliberate, the patchouli rendered as velvet fabric rather than soil, consistent with Dior's La Collection Privée register.
The base is wide and rich: tonka bean, benzoin, and vanilla provide sweetness, amber and cedar add structure, and a smokiness sits at the edge without dominating. This is unmistakably a cold-weather fragrance — opulent but not loud, projecting an aura of closeted warmth. It suits evening wear or formal occasions where a fragrance should announce itself only to those already close.
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.
