Oriental Casbah
Patchouli dominates immediately, delivering a camphoraceous green bite that feels almost medicinal.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Patchouli80
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Patchouli
- Labdanum
- Eucalyptus
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli dominates immediately, delivering a camphoraceous green bite that feels almost medicinal. Labdanum enters next, pouring warm resinous amber over the patchouli while eucalyptus injects a cool, mentholated lift that keeps the resin from turning syrupy. Sandalwood in the base steadies the composition with creamy, milkwood softness, stretching the patchouli’s earthiness into a suede-like texture that lingers close to skin. The fragrance stays linear: the opening chill gradually warms, but the camphor-amber accord remains recognizable for hours. Projection sits at arm’s length for the first three hours, then collapses to a private amber glow. Cool evenings and layered fall wardrobes match its restrained, resinous 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.



