Patchouli of Rwanda
Lemon and bergamot open with a clean bright citrus entry — polished rather than tart, setting an accessible aromatic prelude.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Cedar
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a clean bright citrus entry — polished rather than tart, setting an accessible aromatic prelude. The two notes blend into a single zesty impression rather than reading as distinct.
Jasmine, cedar, and freesia develop a transparent floral-woody heart. Jasmine adds quiet indolic warmth, freesia contributes airy peppery brightness, and cedar threads dry-wood structure underneath. The combination is light and modern, leaning slightly green.
Sandalwood, patchouli, cardamom, and musk anchor the base. Patchouli dominates as the perfume's namesake — earthy, slightly camphorous, with cardamom adding a quiet spicy lift and sandalwood smoothing everything. Musk extends close to skin. Overall it reads as a clean transparent patchouli composition with floral-citrus brightness, accessible rather than heavy.
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.
