Rarely does a single-note theme work as perfectly as Mazzolari’s Patchouly. White honey is paired with Indonesian patchouli and warm far Eastern spices to create a fragrance that maintains the earthy green qualities I’ve come to love about patchouli, without the harshness that often keeps me from truly loving patchouli scents…
Parfums de Couleurs is the newest line from Histoires de Parfums. According to their website, the trio “plays with classical perfume notes”, and I recently gave them a try:
Noir Patchouli has notes of patchouli, coriander, cardamom, floral bouquet, juniper berry, black pepper, musk, vetiver, moss, leather and vanilla. This starts out as a heady mix of patchouli and spices, but settles quickly into a dry, earthy fragrance with lots of vetiver and moss and a dash of vanilla. The leather, which starts out very light, intensifies considerably as it dries down.
I don’t like patchouli and I am not overly fond of leather, but I rather like Noir Patchouli…
Montale is a Paris-based perfumer with two lines: an oudh line based on the precious oudh (or agar) wood frequently used in Middle Eastern fragrances, and a regular perfume line. That is the extent of what I have been able to learn about Montale — if you know more, please comment! Montale’s description of Patchouli Leaves is as follows:
Beautiful Patchouli leaves macerated for two years in the trunk of the oak tree combine with vanilla, amber and white musk on a base of Cystus ladaniferus from Tibet.
Cistus ladaniferus is the variety of rockrose commonly used to make labdanum…