Behold, Patchouli
Orange and bergamot open with a brief, clean citrus brightness that softens quickly rather than asserting itself for long.
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.
- Honey70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Benzoin
- Amber
- Honey
- Chocolate
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and bergamot open with a brief, clean citrus brightness that softens quickly rather than asserting itself for long. The transition into the heart is faster than expected.
Benzoin and amber form the core — resinous, warm, and slightly balsamic. Honey adds a dense sweetness without reading as food, while chocolate deepens the accord toward something dark and slightly bitter. The name suggests patchouli, but none appears in the listed pyramid, so the earthy quality likely comes from benzoin and the amber construction.
The overall feel is a warm, resinous amber-gourmand with genuine sweetness that avoids being cloying. Wears close to skin and evolves modestly after the initial citrus disappears.
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.
