Caoba
Patchouli dominates from the first breath, delivering a bitter-green, almost chocolate earthiness that feels stripped of any citrus lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Patchouli
- Patchouli
- Damask Rose
- Ambergris
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli dominates from the first breath, delivering a bitter-green, almost chocolate earthiness that feels stripped of any citrus lift. Damask rose enters quickly but stays low, softening the patchouli’s rough edges with a faintly spicy, honeyed petal texture rather than overt floral brightness. Ambergris settles underneath as a salty, skin-warm mineral cushion, extending the accord into something musky and slightly marine without adding sweetness. Over hours the composition barely shifts: the rose recedes, the patchouli dries into a dusty bark, and the ambergris leaves a cool briny trace that clings close. Projection stays reserved, creating a personal aura best suited to cool days and quiet offices. Longevity stretches past eight hours, yet the scent remains introspective rather than diffusive.
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.
