Moonlight Patchouli
Bulgarian rose sits at the heart of Moonlight Patchouli — a dark, syrupy rose that reads closer to red wine than garden flower.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Leather85
- Patchouli80
- Rose75
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Iris
- Rose
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBulgarian rose sits at the heart of Moonlight Patchouli — a dark, syrupy rose that reads closer to red wine than garden flower. The rose doesn't sweeten toward a jammy accord; instead it remains austere, slightly bitter, which is unusual for a rose this prominent. Leather and suede in the dry-down are dry rather than acrid, the kind that suggests a well-worn jacket rather than a tannery.
As the name makes clear, patchouli grounds the composition, threading through the floral-leather accord with an earthy, slightly damp quality that adds texture without adding sweetness.
For an Extraordinary Collection fragrance, the restraint is notable — less decorative than much of the VCA lineup, more interested in the chemistry between rose and earth.
Scent twins
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