Patchouli of the Underworld
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that is almost instantly pulled into a darker register by a birch-tar leather accord.
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
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Birch
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that is almost instantly pulled into a darker register by a birch-tar leather accord. Patchouli arrives early, its camphoraceous earthiness amplifying the birch smoke while softening the peppery edges into something suede-like rather than glossy. In the heart, the leather note fattens, picking up a faintly sweet, rubbery facet from styrax that keeps the leather from turning raw. Labdanum warms the base, adding a resinous amber depth that cushions the castoreum’s musky growl without letting it dominate. On skin, the opening spice recedes within thirty minutes, leaving a smoky, musky leather patchouli that stays close but persists for hours, projecting a discreet, tar-edged aura. Cool evenings, smart-casual settings, and leather jackets feel inevitable.
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.
