Vintage Patchouly
Tobacco and bergamot open with a contrasting pair of smoky, leathery depth and bright citrus zest, creating an aromatic and slightly rugged introduction.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Tobacco
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readTobacco and bergamot open with a contrasting pair of smoky, leathery depth and bright citrus zest, creating an aromatic and slightly rugged introduction. Sandalwood and labdanum emerge in the heart, adding a creamy, resinous warmth that bridges the top notes to the earthy base of patchouli. Moss and ambergris contribute a humid, organic quality to the dry-down, while benzoin and amber lend a balsamic sweetness that softens the overall composition. Musk provides a subtle skin affinity, allowing the scent to linger close with significant longevity of ten hours or more. Best for cool weather and formal evening wear, it offers complex evolution.
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.
