Patchouli Boheme
Patchouli Bohème opens with a brief woody-green preface — geranium's slightly minty, rose-adjacent freshness alongside a general woodiness that signals this is not a sweet or floral composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Patchouli75
- Leather65
- Tobacco55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Woody Notes
- Geranium
- Leather
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli Bohème opens with a brief woody-green preface — geranium's slightly minty, rose-adjacent freshness alongside a general woodiness that signals this is not a sweet or floral composition. Within minutes, the heart's intentions become clear: leather, tobacco, and patchouli form a classically constructed dark accord, each note performing its traditional role. The leather is dry and smooth, the tobacco slightly bitter, patchouli earthy and grounding.
Mona di Orio's construction is precise and spare — no excess notes, nothing to distract from the triad at the center. Created for Laurent Mazzone, this is a fragrance that reflects di Orio's signature directness: compositions built around a clear idea, executed without hedging.
Tolu balsam in the base adds a warm, sweet-resinous depth without the cloying quality of vanilla, and the musk provides a skin-forward landing for the composition's dark aromatic character. Wears with authority; not intended for casual contexts.
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.
