Patchouli

How I love the spicy earthiness of patchouli. I wear it a lot, especially when I am wearing a floral that is sweet & needs something to ground it & give the right pungency offsetting the floral sweetness. This especially works well with single note florals like gardenia, rose or honeysuckle. I like to mix patchouli with myrrh & make my own anti-mosquito oil. Mixing with Avon's Skin So Soft Bath Oil a good one, also. Sometimes I will even add frankincense & they blend so well together. I particularly like to mix patchouli with rose. When I mix it with other fragrances, I usually use a light touch on the patchouli because it is so potent, it easily overpowers softer scents such as rose. Oh, my sweet-sharp patchouli!!! 'Have loved it since I was introduced to it in my teens in the late 60s & 70s. I just never outgrew it! Its been a lifelong love affair!!!

This stuff is very powerful. Goes on very concentrated and kinda harsh. Depending on how much you put on, it takes about 30 minutes to an hour to calm down and start radiating that classic dank, musky patchouli smell. The review below that said "soliflore for weed" isn't that far off. This is a skanky patch. Its very deceptive as well. You will become anosmic to it, you might actually question its performance. But people that are 10 feet away will turn to look at you with a scandalous eye. Patchouli is like that. It sneaks through the air and people can pick up that exotic, prickly texture pretty easily. Less is more with this stuff. I have 15 mls and it'll probably last me a lifetime.

I have a very old bottle of this that I found in a drawer when I moved into my home. The oil is dark, very dark and not light at all. The smell is a true patchouli but this has a more wearable vibe. I used to wear any patchouli oil I could get my hands on in the 90’s now being older 38 now I like it but I like it more in something like Narciso For Her edp or Guerlain Parfum Initial. But there’s something about this that I cannot stop sniffing. Maybe it s nostalgia but I love this old bottle so much! I wouldn’t wear this out but indoors or at night I would totally rock this. I really do like it, it smells like teen spirit. ;)

I am crazy for Patchouli, and this is my favorite brand. I'm sure people wince when I enter a room because I like my scents to be on the bold side.

Got a very well kept bottle, still golden colored oil. Opens kinda earthy, chocolatey, woody, kind of cloying tbh. Then after about 20 mins it calms down to a nice woody, soft spicy patchouli. You’ll keep catching hints of earth, spice, wood and of course patchouli. Can’t speak about the sillage, I have a sort of nose blindness to patchouli, but longevity is about maybe 4 hours of projection, then I’m not even sure if it’s there. Great for layering. I can see it layering well florals, vetiver, maybe even some freshies, although that earthy opening can prove challenging. At 60 - 100$ a bottle on the bay, this is only for patchouli lovers. EDIT: found a huge bottle of this stuff, I wear it all the time now. Just a few dabs on the wrist, rub it out like an attar, up the forearms, sleeves and collar. Rubbing it out can help with the opening but still retaining a good amount of earth.