Patchouli Precieux
There's no top — the fragrance opens directly into its base materials, with patchouli leading immediately.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Musk
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThere's no top — the fragrance opens directly into its base materials, with patchouli leading immediately. The patchouli is the chocolate-and-earth kind, dense and slightly camphoraceous from the start.
Vanilla enters quickly to round the patchouli, the pairing creating a comforting woody-gourmand chord that reads almost almond-tinged in its softness. There's a milky lactonic shadow underneath, lending the composition a faintly dessert-adjacent feel without going full gourmand.
Sandalwood and cedar provide a creamy woody backbone, with musk smoothing the finish. The drydown reads warm-earthy-sweet, with the patchouli persistence the central feature. Overall the character is a patchouli soliflore with vanilla support, cool-weather-leaning, evening or quiet daytime, comforting and unfussy, suited to those who like their patchouli central rather than supporting.
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.
