Patchouli
Patchouli leads from the first breath, dry and earthy with the slightly camphorous, head-shop edge intact rather than scrubbed clean.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Mossy70
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli leads from the first breath, dry and earthy with the slightly camphorous, head-shop edge intact rather than scrubbed clean. Oakmoss thickens that base immediately, adding a damp forest-floor coolness that grounds the whole composition.
Jasmine and rose drift through the heart as a thin floral veil, more shadow than perfume, softening patchouli's bitterness without sweetening it. Sandalwood smooths the edges as the base settles, lending a creamy woody hum beneath the earth.
The overall character is a frankly traditional patchouli, soliflore-style, with mossy and floral accents that flatter rather than redirect. It wears close to the skin as it dries, evoking old apothecary cabinets and folded linen.
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.
