Patchouli Nobile
A dry, woody opening — incense smoke threading through guaiac, both rooty and slightly medicinal.
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.
- Patchouli90
- Woody60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Guaiac Wood
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readA dry, woody opening — incense smoke threading through guaiac, both rooty and slightly medicinal. There's no sweetness asking for attention, just a clean dark resin shape.
Patchouli takes over the heart and stays there. It's the green, mineral kind, set against a thin line of jasmine that keeps the composition from going monastic. Virginia cedar lends a pencil-shavings sharpness. The base is restrained: sandalwood at low volume, tonka adding a soft hay finish, oakmoss giving the whole structure a chypre backbone.
Reads serious. Not difficult, but unhurried. Cool weather, daytime, the kind of scent that doesn't announce 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.
