Patchouli 24
Patchouli 24 opens with patchouli — dry and earthy rather than the sweetened variety — before birch tar and styrax arrive in the heart to pull the composition toward smoke and rubber.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Patchouli85
- Leather55
- Vanilla45
- Incense40
- Tobacco30
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli 24 opens with patchouli — dry and earthy rather than the sweetened variety — before birch tar and styrax arrive in the heart to pull the composition toward smoke and rubber. The birch tar is the fragrance's signature: woody, tarry, slightly medicinal, like the inside of a freshly smoked barrel.
Vanilla in the base softens the smoke rather than sweetening it, a creamy counterpoint that makes the whole construction wearable rather than abrasive. Leather threads through as an implicit quality rather than a discrete note. The result is one of Le Labo's most challenging and most admired compositions — smoky, earthy, quietly animalic, resolutely itself.
