Patchouli
Black pepper crackles first, a dry, mineral heat that quickly picks up patchouli’s bitter-green edge.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Violet Leaf
- Iris
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry, mineral heat that quickly picks up patchouli’s bitter-green edge. Violet leaf adds a cool, crushed-stem facet while iris iris keeps the heart powdery and matte, so the earthiness never turns syrupy. As the spices settle, labdanum warms the base, stretching the patchouli into a leathery, resinous glow that clings close to skin. The scent stays linear: pepper brightness on top, patchouli-iris dust in the middle, ambered patchouli below, with no overt vanilla or wood to sweeten the ride. Projection sits at arm’s length for four hours, then withdraws to a quiet, earthy skin-trace. Cool autumn days and grey wool scarves fit its restrained, slightly smoky character.
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.
