Patchouli
Patchouli, cedar, and sandalwood arrive together at the top — no citrus curtain-raiser, just the earthy, woody core of the composition stated plainly.
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
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
- Benzoin
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli, cedar, and sandalwood arrive together at the top — no citrus curtain-raiser, just the earthy, woody core of the composition stated plainly. This directness is the fragrance's defining quality; it does not build toward its subject but begins with it.
Benzoin and tonka soften the sharper wood edges in the heart, bending the dry earthiness toward something sweeter and more rounded. Amber supports this shift, while vanilla in the base carries the sweetness further without becoming gourmand.
White musk in the base gives the final stages a powdery cleanliness that lifts the darker resin layers. This is a straightforward patchouli composition with a warm, balsamic finish that wears closer to skin than it projects outward.
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.
