Patchouli 1969
Patchouli opens raw and camphoraceous, the leaf’s bitter chocolate dusted with cardamom’s gingery heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli opens raw and camphoraceous, the leaf’s bitter chocolate dusted with cardamom’s gingery heat. Petitgrain’s green flash keeps the first minutes from turning murky, lifting the earthiness like a cold steel blade. At heart, jasmine and rose soften the patchouli without hiding its rough bark; their petals seem dusted with the same dry soil, so the flower feels sun-wilted rather than sweet. Vanilla warms slowly, rounding the edges while sandalwood pours in a steady cedar-cream stream that lasts through sundown. The musk stays low, a skin-print that keeps the composition wearable rather than museum-piece. Projection sits at arm’s length for six hours, then settles into a suede-soft scarf perfect for cool autumn evenings or a crisp white shirt at the office.
Scent twins
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