Persephone's Patchouli
Opens dark and jammy: pomegranate and plum stewed against cardamom's green-warm spice, with a wine-like fruit density that pulls the composition immediately into ripe, cool-weather territory.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Honey85
- Rose60
- Patchouli60
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Pomegranate
- Plum
- Cardamom
- Bulgarian Rose
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readOpens dark and jammy: pomegranate and plum stewed against cardamom's green-warm spice, with a wine-like fruit density that pulls the composition immediately into ripe, cool-weather territory.
The heart lands on Bulgarian rose laid over patchouli, the rose deep and slightly inky rather than fresh-cut. The fruit-rose-patchouli triangle is familiar oriental architecture, executed here with a saturated rather than airy hand.
The base does the heavy lifting. Honey pours sticky-warm over sandalwood with coffee adding a roasted, slightly bitter undertone and ambergris pushing the whole thing salty-animalic. Cedar dries the edges. The drydown reads as candied stone fruit rolled in spice and resin — a long, dense, plush-but-grimy register built for evening cold.
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.
