Patchouli Argent
Incense rises first, dry and papery, pushing a cool frankincense smoke that flattens the bergamot into a metallic glint rather than citrus sparkle.
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.
- Smoky90
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Incense
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readIncense rises first, dry and papery, pushing a cool frankincense smoke that flattens the bergamot into a metallic glint rather than citrus sparkle. Jasmine and rose bloom only after the smoke settles, their petals rendered matte by the same resins so the flowers feel grey-tinted rather than lush. Patchouli arrives as clean earth, stripped of camphor and chocolate, anchoring the incense in soft soil while musk blankets the entire structure with a neutral grey wash. Over three hours the smoke thins, the musk warms, and the composition relaxes into a calm skin-scent of powdered wood and cooled ash. Projection stays within arm’s length; best for quiet offices, cool spring evenings, or meditative travel where subtle incense is welcome.
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.
