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Patchouli opens earthy and slightly camphoraceous, immediately laying down a loamy base that the heart will later sweeten.
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.
- Patchouli70
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Patchouli
- Benzoin
- Pink Pepper
- Rose
- Oakmoss
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli opens earthy and slightly camphoraceous, immediately laying down a loamy base that the heart will later sweeten. Benzoin and vanilla arrive early, turning the soil into warm, resinous amber while pink pepper sparks a brief rosy glow that keeps the accord from turning syrupy. Rose itself stays subdued, more texture than colour, letting the incense and oakmoss take over in the dry-down: chalky church smoke against bitter green velvet. Hours in, musk blurs the edges so the scent hovers just above skin, a persistent amber-resin halo with a cool mineral undertone. Projection stays moderate, leaning toward evening or layered fall fabrics.
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.
