Kursa
Patchouli opens damp and earthy, immediately joined by a sharp rose that strips away any sweetness, leaving a dry, almost mineral floral edge.
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.
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Patchouli
- Musk
- Rose
- Labdanum
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readPatchouli opens damp and earthy, immediately joined by a sharp rose that strips away any sweetness, leaving a dry, almost mineral floral edge. The heart introduces labdanum, a resinous amber that thickens the texture and folds the patchouli into a leathery, slightly smoky chord. Oud dominates the base, not barn-yard but clean and medicinal, pushing the composition into dark wood-panelled territory while the rose recedes to a dusty memory. Over hours the musk re-appears, turning the oud softer and closer to the skin, yet the scent never loses its austere, dry character. Projection stays within arm’s length; the structure feels built for cool evenings or a formal dinner where leather furniture is more common than flowers. Longevity stretches past midnight, mainly as a skin-level wood-and-resin shadow.
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.
