Patchouly
Orange and bergamot open with a warm, rounded citrus — the orange providing sweetness, the bergamot adding lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Patchouli70
- Orange50
- Amber50
- Sandalwood40
- Bergamot40
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and bergamot open with a warm, rounded citrus — the orange providing sweetness, the bergamot adding lift. The opening is classic Etro: Mediterranean in character, unhurried, and fundamentally good-natured.
Sandalwood and rose form the heart — a quietly unusual pairing that reads as warm wood with floral softness. The sandalwood is a slightly creamy foundation; the rose provides a traditional floral bridge to the base without announcing itself as the lead note.
Patchouli, amber, and vanilla anchor the base with rich, earthy warmth, while an unexpected note of mint in the dry-down adds a cool, faintly mentholated quality that keeps the patchouli from becoming heavy. Etro Patchouly demonstrates that patchouli doesn't require gimmickry — just the right wood, floral, and amber context to support it.
