Velvet Black Patchouli
Blood orange and papyrus open with a bright-dry rustle that quickly folds into Bulgarian rose, its petals dusted with clary sage and a chewy tobacco leaf that darkens the citrus glow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Tobacco60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Papyrus
- Bulgarian Rose
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
- Clary Sage
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange and papyrus open with a bright-dry rustle that quickly folds into Bulgarian rose, its petals dusted with clary sage and a chewy tobacco leaf that darkens the citrus glow. A double dose of patchouli—once in heart, once in base—rides alongside the rose, anchoring the composition in loamy earth while caramel and tonka pour warm, burnt-sugar viscosity over the wood, turning the accord into a bittersweet mocha swirl. Vanilla keeps the finish pliable, not fluffy, so the patchouli’s camphor edge stays audible for hours, tracing skin in a sepia ribbon. Projection sits at arm’s length for most of the day, then settles into a quietly resinous hum that favors cooler weather and dimly lit venues.
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.
