Celestial Patchouli

Strong patchouli combined with strong cinnamon in equal parts for me. It’s a joy to smell Celestial Patchouli!!! As a patchouli fan, I had high expectations from this scent because I really wanted to like. About half of the scents from the discovery set were quite underwhelming and light, the other half were good and tempt me to get a smaller bottle! Celestial Patchouli belongs to the second half. It’s not the strongest patchouli fragrance I have gotten my nose on, but it’s intense. Warm spices, cypriol oil, rose and a peach accord created probably by the osmanthus flower are the most prominent accords, that surround patchouli and create together a complex scent. Again, for people who have a large collection, Celestial Patchouli is not going to be something new. From my collection, it reminded me instantly of Patchouliful from Laboratorio Olafattivo, which is about half the price of Celestial Patchouli. And it’s also longer lasting. Psychedelique by Jovoy is another fragrance that is relatively similar to Celestial Patchouli with better performance and at a slightly lower price. Therefore, I am sticking to my 2 ml sample and will skip Celestial Patchouli! But I will recommend to anyone who loves patchouli because it’s a well done patchouli perfume. Moderate to strong longevity and moderate sillage. Still slightly overpriced for what you get, considering you can get way cheaper from another niche house!

It's a great, very potent spicy patch scent. Even though sandalwood, cinnamon and leather are definitely present it's the patch that just about wins in power. There is quite a power struggle going on. I love it but then I love sandalwood, cinnamon and patch and not that averse to leather. It's definitely unisex. Sometimes patch can be a heavy but here the large dash of cinnamon keeps this a warm scent and perfect on chilly days. I can only begin to pick out the delicate orris root and osmanthus after nearly half an hour. The papyrus adds an interesting green and unique twist to this fragrance. I actually think I love it even more after half an hour. The papyrus starts to come into its own and almost dominates. It sort of brings to mind Jessica Simpson's Fancy Nights which to be honest is not my bag. I get average sillage and longevity in this cold room. I have to admit that I'm surprised it doesn't have much great longevity. Would I buy a bottle? I'm afraid the price point is out of my league and frankly I'd want much better longevity.

**From a 2ml sample** This is my second time wearing it, with about three sprays to my arm and inside of my elbow. What struck me immediately is at is warms up there is a definite musky / hay heart note that appears and the top notes give way quite quickly. I can feel the flowers, iris and rose hovering at the edges, dried by heat. The cinnamon tames the almost skanky musk note (which I love) and there is a buttery orris(?) note that fleetingly has an almost chocolate facet. It teeters on being almost gourmand in a way. I was disappointed in the dry down the first time, as it gave way to an almost complete patchouli base, albeit a very quality and slightly soapy patchouli. My guess is that this is a 6 - 8 hr longevity. Very nice ingredients. *update* At 12+ hours it's still very noticeable on my skin. There's an amber in the dry down as well as a sweet leather note.

Gorgeous for the patchouli lovers

I like this a lot. But then I am almost always a fan of patchouli. For me, this is a warm spicy patchouli fragrance in which the cinnamon and coriander come through quite strongly. It's woody but not too dry like a lot of woods are to my nose. There's both a sweetness and a pleasant savouriness. I can see what ThePaleHorse meant by it teetering on the edge of gourmand. It doesn't smell like any particular food or dish but it does make the mouth water in a way perhaps reminiscent of some kind of earthy fragrant curry paste. Without actually smelling like curry in any way. Not getting a lot of osmanthus (although I have to say I have trouble identifying osmanthus unless I'm wearing a perfume where that note is very dominant). I also can't say I know what cypriol oil smells like so not sure if that's what I'm getting here, but I note that cypriol also seems to be present in another one of the Sana Jardin line, Nubian Musk, which also smells very pleasant to me. And it is a main feature of Hans Hendley's Fume, which I am a big fan of. So I guess that perhaps I like cypriol oil as a note? Celestial Patchouli is a lot less smoky than Fume though, so whatever gives Fume its smokiness is probably less the cypriol than some of the other ingredients. On first smelling this I was faintly reminded of Palissandre D'Or by Aedes de Venustas, which I own. I compared them against each other on each wrist and they're not a similar as I first thought. Palissandre D'Or feels greener and 'wetter' than Celestial Patchouli. If Palissandre D'Or feels like a walk through the rainforest surrounded by majestic trees and wet leaves, Celestial Patchouli is like finding a a wooden house in a clearing in the forest, entering to find a selection of earthenware pots, some spices hung up on the rafters, maybe some leather cushions or wall decorations... with the scent of patchouli still drifting in from outside.