Essence de Patchouli
Essence de Patchouli is what the name promises — patchouli foregrounded and held there, treated as a subject rather than a base material.
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.
- Patchouli85
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Clove
- Rose
- Patchouli
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readEssence de Patchouli is what the name promises — patchouli foregrounded and held there, treated as a subject rather than a base material. The opening carries a faint clove and rose top, but within minutes the patchouli takes over: earthy, slightly camphorous, with the chocolate-cocoa undertone that aged patchouli oil develops.
The middle thickens with iris powder and a balsamic rose, and guaiac and sandalwood smooth the dry-down without diluting the central note. Vanilla and amber round the trail. Sillage is strong; longevity easily covers a full day. Cool-weather wear, evening or formal, on coats and scarves more than skin.
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.
