Patchouli Noble Secret III
Cinnamon crackles over bright lemon and bergamot, the spice turning the citrus oily and warm while cardamom adds a green-cool edge.
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.
- Cinnamon90
- Lavender70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Sage
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon crackles over bright lemon and bergamot, the spice turning the citrus oily and warm while cardamom adds a green-cool edge. Heart layers dry sage and lavender against earthy patchouli, their aromatics lifting the wood’s cocoa-like darkness so that violet and rose register as clean purple accents rather than sweet florals. As the base settles in, tonka sweetens the cinnamon, labdanum and myrrh give a resinous amber glow, and iris dusts the whole with cool powder that keeps the patchouli civil. Skin-warmth amplifies the balsamic trail, letting benzoin and musk linger as a soft, tobacco-tinged haze that still smells freshly spiced. Projection stays within arm’s length for seven hours, ideal for cool fall offices or smart-casual winter evenings when you want presence without shouting.
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.
