Patou Pour Homme Prive
Galbanum snaps open with a bitter-green flash that cuts through bergamot’s polite citrus, creating an immediate cool-dry foliage effect sharpened by lavender’s metallic camphor edge.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum snaps open with a bitter-green flash that cuts through bergamot’s polite citrus, creating an immediate cool-dry foliage effect sharpened by lavender’s metallic camphor edge. The heart is skipped, so the transition lands straight on vetiver’s smoky rootiness threaded with patchouli’s earthy chocolate, both pinned down by Virginia cedar’s pencil-shave dryness. Over an hour the galbanum recedes, letting the lavender soften into a clean barbershop hum while the woody base gains a faint leather-like dusk. Projection stays within arm’s length for roughly six hours, then collapses to a skin-whisper of cedar and vetiver. Cool spring or early-fall offices, business-casual settings, and anything requiring quiet authority fit its restrained silhouette.
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.
