Hindu Grass
Hindu Grass opens with an unadorned wall of patchouli—earthy, slightly medicinal, and surprisingly clean for something so rooted in soil and leaf.
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
- Tobacco25
- Green20
- Vetiver15
- Oakmoss15
By the editors · 2 min readHindu Grass opens with an unadorned wall of patchouli—earthy, slightly medicinal, and surprisingly clean for something so rooted in soil and leaf. There's none of the syrupy sweetness often ladled onto this note. Instead, it reads almost austere at first, like walking into a room lined with unvarnished wood and dried herbs bundled from the rafters.
As it settles, a mossy, almost tobacco-like warmth emerges, rounding out the sharper green edges without softening them entirely. The effect remains linear but not static—more like watching light shift across a single object than watching the object transform.
This is patchouli for those who want the note itself, not its supporting cast. It suits people comfortable with minimalism, who appreciate materials presented plainly rather than dressed up. Not meditative in a spa sense, but grounding in the way physical work can be.
