Patchouli
Patchouli (2009) is a chypre-floral that uses the title note as a frame rather than a hammer.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Patchouli68
- Rose52
- Iris48
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Patchouli
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli (2009) is a chypre-floral that uses the title note as a frame rather than a hammer. The opening is patchouli straight, dry and slightly camphorous, but it doesn't shout — within minutes a wide floral chorus arrives behind it.
The heart is unusually busy: damask rose, peach, iris, thyme, ylang-ylang, lily-of-the-valley, palmarosa, lavender, bitter orange, lily, peony and jasmine all come through, with the herbal notes tempering what could have been a syrupy bouquet. The patchouli stays in view the whole time, threading through the flowers without dominating. The base is gentle — vanilla, white musk and a faint nougat sweetness — which softens the chypre structure into something wearable rather than austere. Better in cool weather; close-projecting and patient.
Scent twins
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