Sole Patchouli
With patchouli declared at every level of the pyramid, this reads as a focused single-material study rather than a developmental composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Patchouli
- Patchouli
- Mimosa
- Civet
- Patchouli
- Civet
By the editors · 2 min readWith patchouli declared at every level of the pyramid, this reads as a focused single-material study rather than a developmental composition.
The opening is patchouli at full volume: damp, earthy, and slightly camphorous, with mimosa's powdery yellow-floral softness folded in to round the edges. The composition stays narrow and focused, with no fruit or citrus detour.
The drydown adds civet's animalic warmth alongside the persistent patchouli, the civet giving a furred, slightly urinous depth that emphasises the patchouli's leathery side. The overall reading is a dense patchouli-mimosa with an animalic-leathery underside, contemplative and slightly retro in feel. Longevity excellent.
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.
