Intense Patchouli
Patchouli opens raw and leafy, its camphor edge immediately framed by a bright lemon flash that strips away any sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Lavender
- Lemon
- White Musk
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli opens raw and leafy, its camphor edge immediately framed by a bright lemon flash that strips away any sweetness. The heart pulls lavender’s cool, herbal sting into the earthy matrix, while sandalwood’s creamy lactones soften the rough edges without adding sugar. Vanilla and white musk arrive late, layering a powdery, almost marshmallow cushion that lets the patchouli smolder rather than burn, turning the accord softly balsamic. On skin the citrus evaporates within minutes, leaving a seamless woody-vanilla loop that stays closer-close yet persistent, a quiet russet cloud rather than a sillage trail. Expect steady wear for a full workday, ideal under cool wool or a leather jacket in fall through early spring.
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.
