I love all things patchouli. Headshop, gourmand, earthy, dirty, skanky, whatever else. The dirtier/skankier/headshop the better actually.
My favourite patchouli dominant scents in no particular order would include:
- Psychedelique by Jovoy Paris
- Noir Patchouli by Histoires de Parfums
- C'est la Fete Patchouli by Christian Lacroix
- Lumiere Noire Pour Femme by Francis Kurkdjian
- Patchouli by Reminiscence
- Patchouli 24 by Le Labo
- Calypso Ambre by Calypso Christiane Celle
Coromandel gets so much love on the perfume forums, I had to get it. While I don't regret it per se, I could have lived without this blind buy quite happily. Actually point to note here, avoid blind buying if you can, sample, sample, SAMPLE!
Coco Chanel and coromandel screen, taken from habituallychic
Coromandel is a classy patchouli. Too classy for me. Any visits to headshops in her history have been carefully erased and she is now a very proper and conservative lady. The patchouli here is of the creamy and smooth kind, well-behaved and non-dominating. I smell the orris root very clearly, a note I became familiar with in Tauer's Pentachord White. The incense like the patchouli is muted here, none of firework displays seen in Amouages or Tauer's L'Air du Desert Marocain or Serge Luten's Ambre Sultan.
Albert von Keller Chopin 1873
Coromandel screens are darkly lacquered wooden screens with vivid characters and landscapes carved out of ivory or mother-of-pearl, or painstakingly pieced with tiny precious gems, or painted in rich reds and golds. They are rich, passionate pieces of art depicting Asian culture, history and folklore.
Coromandel the scent is beautiful but it lacks character for me and does not do justice to its name. The sillage and longevity however are excellent.
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