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 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.
- Patchouli85
- Leather55
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Patchouli
- Patchouli
- Birch
- Birch
- Styrax
- Styrax
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.
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.
