Patchouli
Orange arrives first, a bright citrus peel that cardamom quickly dusts with peppery heat while nutmeg adds a dry, woody spice underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Lavender
- Guaiac Wood
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readOrange arrives first, a bright citrus peel that cardamom quickly dusts with peppery heat while nutmeg adds a dry, woody spice underneath. Lavender lands early in the heart, its clean herbal facet softening the spice trail before guaiac wood introduces a faint pencil-shaving smokiness that steers the scent toward the base. There patchouli takes over, earthy and slightly camphoraceous, supported by cedar’s dry pencil-wood and frankincense’s cool, resinous breath that lifts the compost-rich patchouli away from heaviness. On skin the opening citrus burns off within twenty minutes, leaving a seamless lavender-guaiac corridor that slowly collapses into the quiet patchouli accord, which remains softly woody rather than syrupy. Projection stays polite, a skin-to-arm’s-length radius for six hours, perfect for unpretentious office wear from cool spring mornings through mild fall afternoons.
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.
