Purple Patchouli
With no listed top notes, the composition opens straight into its heart: leather paired with patchouli.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather80
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Patchouli
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readWith no listed top notes, the composition opens straight into its heart: leather paired with patchouli. The leather reads polished and slightly smoky rather than tarry, the patchouli dry and earthy rather than camphor-bright.
There is little intermediate development; the heart slowly deepens as the base warms. Vetiver arrives rooty and slightly green, contributing a damp earthiness that knits to the patchouli's mineral side. Amber lends a soft resinous warmth that prevents the leather-patchouli pairing from feeling austere.
The overall character is a focused, earthy leather-patchouli — masculine-leaning, with a quiet smoky undertone. Projection moderate, longevity comfortable, settling into a dry woody-earthy trail best suited to cool-weather evening or formal wear.
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.
