Patchouli Intense
Lavender and orange give it a light, aromatic entry — clean rather than dark, suggesting this will be a patchouli fragrance for people who find conventional patchouli fragrances too heavy or too seventies.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Patchouli75
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Orange
- Patchouli
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and orange give it a light, aromatic entry — clean rather than dark, suggesting this will be a patchouli fragrance for people who find conventional patchouli fragrances too heavy or too seventies. Both opening notes remain audible longer than expected.
The patchouli heart is robust but well-mannered: earthy, slightly camphoraceous, with rose providing gentle floral softening. Patricia de Nicolaï's approach is classical rather than psychedelic — patchouli as a distinguished ingredient, not as a statement.
Sandalwood, amber, and vanilla form a warm, rounded base that gives the whole thing genuine sweetness at the drydown without becoming gourmand. A reliable niche patchouli from a house that handles heritage materials with consistent care.
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.
