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sar4i – :
The reviews of this one are hilarious. And I can appreciate both the lovers and haters. This one is beautifully hard to love. Which is like your favorite obscure band. You feel like you’re part of a secret. There’s something so wrong but so right about it. Burnt rubber and tar, BBQ’d meat, floral-musk notes, and sweet vanilla. Motorcycles, leather, ominous foreboding, and sex. And yet, oddly comforting.
It’s a piece of aesthetic irony, contradiction, and sex appeal.
One of my absolute faves. I like wearing it to work. Which is how I think it should be worn. Completely inappropriately. Just like the scent itself.
10 of 10.
Longevity is ridiculous. It stops when you shower and scrub it off. And not until then.
vadimyulin – :
This one I really do like. Starts off really smokey and kind of spicy, reminiscent of something Andy Tauer would release. Then it dries down to this leathery, maybe just a tinge fruity scent, which reminds me of Black No.1 by House of Matriarch. Love the combination. It lasts and lasts, very potent stuff, I made the mistake of dousing myself, as the past two fragrances I’ve tested from Le Labo were underwhelmingly weak. Oh, and there is this strange ‘cardboard’ note floating around that I have been getting from Le Labo fragrances. Strangely, I do like that, I just wish it wasn’t in every fragrance that I have tried. In any case, do try this one, personally I think this is one of their best.
nikola02 – :
This has been my signature scent of all times (I find it more enjoyable during cold weather). Very smoky like a campfire smell in the first few hours. And then It sort of dried down to a leathery patchouli slightly smoky scent. after 5-7 hours it started to have this gourmand sweet benzoin vanilla dry down… that is when i occasionally sniff it through the wind flow through my pulse points and started to roll my eyes ..One of the most pleasant dry down I’ve ever had experienced.
This last forever on my skin (12 hours) and it really needs time to develop. Every hour feels like a slightly different fragrance. I really dont expect people to like this at their first try… It is something you get addicted to if you give it some times.
Oh btw I found the smell of the actual purchased bottle a slightly different than the samples I got it from Le Labo boutique. I think the one in their store smells more like bbq where the purchased one smells more like campfire. The colour of the in-store juice is way darker than mine too.
rukodel – :
This is a fragrance you really NEED to let it dry down…at leased an hour.
The opening is a punch in the face…it kinda smells like somebody wrapped a ham in a leather jacket soaked in vanilla extract and threw it into a tire fire. Some say a campfire, i don’t disagree but this isn’t your ordinary campfire smell.
once it sits on the skin for a hour, the burnt rubbery ham smell disappears, the smoke and leather die down a bit and the Patcholli makes its debut appearance.
after about 3 hours the scent is a nice balance of leather, woody, smokey vanilla & Patchouli.
FYI…this juice is dangerous – the projection is crazy strong and offensive in its first hour. i damn near choked out a family of 5 in a elevator.
funt – :
To those out there who didn’t grow up with a Dad obsessed with the healing properties of tar. The potent thing lurking beneath the fleeting smoke, vanilla and leather is the actual, unapologetic medicinal tar, and it will outstay all the other notes – by about 5 or 6 hours. I’m too far gone to say if it’s a good or a bad thing, so just be warned.
The Katenschinken comment by the_good_life made me laugh out loud. The smoked ham element is definitely there, too. I read it as KATERschinken at first and pictured a battle-scarred Tomcat stealing a slice of ham from a well-laid table at some country cottage, leaving tarry pawprints on the tablecloth.
Also, if you’re wondering what perfume a tar-worshipping Dad would swear by, it’s Egoiste Platinum. Go figure 🙂
UPD Devil’s Nightcap by Lush smells almost the same post-opening sans the ham part.
bukkake – :
Birch tar, burned birch, mellow smoke, coal, interestingly I’m also smelling eucalyptus in this. I’m kinda speechless. Have I found my holy grail? :O
One hour later: going strongly to the direction of leather. Not my holy grail. :/
Few hours laters: projection’s over and it’s close to skin now. it’s beginning to smell sweet. Reminds me of By the Fireplace by Maison Martin Margiela. But this one is not cloyingly sweet! What a beautiful scent.
16 hours later: it’s still on my skin.
24 hours later: I had to do some physical work and while working got whiffs of Patchouli 24. Still on skin! Longevity of this stuff is great! Now heading to shower…
After shower: Patchouli 24 is gone.
This stuff is worth every penny. I urge you to sample it! 🙂
evgen.bem – :
I agree with some other reviewers here that this one transitions on skin from smoke (BBQ?) to something so special. Yes, it has a smoked meat opening, and it’s weird. If it stayed this way, I wouldn’t wear it. But the transition happens fairly quickly. Within an hour it smells so good, so rich and complex. I have been afraid to wear this one, and I’m sorry I have been. I’ll be squeezing in a few more wears before it gets too hot.
The smoke never goes completely away, but it moves into the background and the vanilla and patch come up a bit. I don’t think Patchouli is the right name for this, but that’s another story.
If you’re worried about the opening, just spray it on a few minutes before you leave the house. And go easy on the trigger.
former48 – :
You’re a product consultant and you’ve just stepped foot into a niche slaughterhouse to critique some liquid smoke products while you try them on some fresh pork. The place is pretty grim and you can hear squealing off in the distance, but you’re pretty hyped to taste the bacon. For some reason, though, instead of participating in any taste tests, you’re taken down to a grimy, morgue-like dungeon area, where a foul-smelling, ashy cremation of some diseased pigs is going on, bones and all. You didn’t ask to be made an involuntary guest on a new exposé helmed by PETA, but here you are. Patchouli 24 by Le Labo.
Svobodnaya_Krasotka – :
A smoky patchouli.
It feels very “new age” but with a sophisticated twist.
Not much to say about it, you get the patchouli and the birch, they create a sort of incense type of scent.
If that’s not your type of fragrance it will probably take a few tries until you feel comfortable wearing it.
slava0202 – :
Holy smokey campfire magic! This perfume is quite impressive in all it’s phases. On my skin, the intriguing “campfire”, tinge of BBQ opening does not last very long before becoming a persistent and wonderfully robust, smoldering warm, amazing vanilla, with a smokey base and what I perceive to be, the smallest bit of clove? Interesting to note, while out testing, on my friends skin however, the opening stayed true throughout the duration! On her skin, the vanilla was not elevated as it was in mine. She got the campfire magic for hours! Honestly, it smelled beautiful on her that way, but I am so very pleased with the way it transformed on my skin. This is an unusual and stunning perfume.
pacifist – :
*You, smelling yourself after a spritz of Patch 24*
“WTF, I haven’t been around a campfire in months!! Why do I stink like burning wood?”
A few hours later…
“This leather and smoke is AMAZING.”
That’s what this smells like.
TIER – :
Wow it is fantastic! Breathtaking!
AleksXXX – :
I am so intrigued. It smells both like a barnyard and good at the same time. I’m too scared to wear this on my skin yet, but wow, that initial blast is pure animal dung! Quite daring to say the least. 🙂
AlekseyHate – :
It settles on my skin to a smoky, slightly dirty, slightly wet scent. The smell reminds me of a mechanical shop (or burnt tire) in a good way. This is one of those perfumes that need a good one hour to develop on my skin!
Here patchouli is buried under a blanket of smoky leathery effects that are coming from birch. The vanilla is muted in the scent at the beginning and it takes a long time to show up. Eventually on my skin it dries down to a nice and balanced composition.
It is a nice scent in this genre with good longevity and projection, however when I consider the price tag I think I can find better options for my wardrobe.
svyaznoy – :
Can anyone identify the notes? I mean beyond the obvious ones, Birch, vanilla, patchouli. I’m super curious! I have absolutely no clue whats in here beyond those.
sprut75 – :
Mature, like grandpa mature.. enormous sillage, burnt tire with a smidge of leather
NalBarelariny – :
I don’t get any patchouli here. This just smells like a leather daddy bar in the 8th layer of hell. A fiery inferno of ball gags, assless chaps and burnt flesh.
CialisFarmaco – :
I absolutely love this fragrance. A smokey barbecue on a wet day in a dense forest, surrounded by turned earth. Perhaps not the most sociable of fragrances, I can well imagine it’s a love or hate thing, but it is great, lasting and reassuring company in itself. Perhaps doesn’t work on a hot sunny day, but I confess to blasting the AC on a hot summer evening, partly just so I could wear this and my favourite hoodie (now my patchouli 24 hoodie) in front of the TV. I love waking up to the fading vanilla-rich embers the morning after and still smelling it as a put myself through torture in a yoga class.
NerZull – :
campfire smoke and bbq sauce ..Patchouli is a bit disguised.
andriy123 – :
l’ve recently bought samples set of Le Labo’s fragrances in order to chose which l will finally purchase for myself. Everyday l test one of them and l have already tested 4.
Today was Patchouli 24’s turn and it’s not bringing any positive feedback on Le Labo’s scents mix, mostly happening at the first spray down moments; l still have another 11 fragrances to try and l hope l will not be as disappointed as l’ve been since l started this test.
As l’ve learned from those 5 tested fragrances Le Labo’s start with a very powerful and even annoying mixing to end up hours later in a fainted but more pleasant scent.
For Patchouli 24’s first ‘impression’ is quite like a smokey-leathery ancient abbey’s furniture(s), worn out by a mixing of humidity-temperature, dirt and candles’ soot, rodents and insects waste and human sweat. Not pleasant at all… l will see how this fragrance ‘evolves’ after some hours…
After 5 hours the scent is quite fainted and from the ‘left over’ mix only patchouli and a vague vanilla scent can be better perceived.
Mego4yvak – :
Upon initial spray down… offensive, heavy and very smokey. You get a punch of funky leather.
Dries down to something interesting, I had to keep smelling my arm to determine if I even liked it or not but I could tell it was growing on me because it had a few interesting and prominent notes.
Update 1: The dry down after a few hours is foul. I keep catching a whiff of something stale, it is this on my arm. Does not do well on my skin long term, does not do well in heat.
Update 2: Did much better on my skin this time around… it didn’t turn foul. The patchouli was there. I think I like this but it is a bit unpredictable and I feel people around me might find it too offensive.
sevldo – :
Smells like standing near a bonfire on a cold fall night while huddled inside a big leather jacket.
Very smoky, very leathery, a tad of vanilla. One of the most unique compositions I have had the pleasure of indulging in. Darkly beautiful, Love it
This really sweetens up after a bit the vanilla becomes more prominent and it begins to remind me a lot of..Bvlgari Black. Which makes sense as this is created by the same nose. While the price will definitly keep me from owning a full bottle of this, I’m happy to know I have a close second in my wardrobe already created by the very same talent
deewlyagreeby – :
Smoke. Deep, heavy smoke. Le Labo Patchouli 24 is one cumin drop away from full on, bone-slathered barbecue sauce. If it’s campfire smoke you’re after then meet your new best friend, but don’t think for a second that this is going to bring back memories of camping with your buddies deep in the pine trees. This is a primal, meaty smoke beefed up by birch and leather, like four cave men sitting around a fire, the flames glimmering off of their blackened faces. Unfortunately that’s a huge bulk of what makes up Patchouli 24. There’s some fuzzy patchouli and warm, gorgeous bourbon vanilla waiting for you when the smoke finally clears, but boy does it take a while to clear. By the halfway point the fragrance is pure smokey vanilla, and if you know Annick Menardo you know that she’s a master in that territory. Vanilla 24 would be a more suitable name, as that boozy vanilla soon becomes the star of the show, but apparently the use of misleading titles is Le Labo’s trademark. Either way I’m quite torn. I’ve been looking for a quality vanilla scent and this develops into just that, but the journey to the heart of the scent is just way too long and harsh. Would I wear it? Hell yeah. Would I pay the hefty niche price? Absolutely not.
kisa-kisa – :
The perfect smoke scent for me. The opening smells like a bbq fire pit with a hint of leather and vanilla. As the fragrance dries down, a warm smokey vanilla comes through. The patchouli peaks its head through here and there and intertwines with the vanilla and smoke. This is not a cloying smoke. Its a delicious smokey scent. Easy on the trigger. The longevity, performance and sillage is beast mode on me.
SeriousMG – :
If you are looking for an unadulterated patchouli scent, then this may not be it. But I guess that goes without saying, because this is supposed to be a 24 note fragrance. Right off the top there is a room filling floral-potpourri-like headiness, in a haze of smoke. Then out comes the beat up old leather and patchouli. The patchouli is not very bracing or minty. More of a smooth, vintage patchouli.
kesha232 – :
don’t worry, dude, you’ll grow up one day! 🙂 seriously, in the pantheon of the great Smokies™, P24 is all wacky bbq fun + attention to structure that has made it a classic. mandatory for smoke aficiando & carnivores ….
phc551Negeltzex – :
Bonfire of the Vanities! OMG! I love smoky perfumes! I love patchouli! I love dark enigmatic perfumes! The opening is a fireworks of smoky embers that burst like bottle rockets. I can practically see the sparks in the air! The smoldering vanilla drenched wood is stunning.
But . . . within a few minutes it dries down to a pale specter of itself. Drydown – soft sillage, soft longevity. Ended up being more of a candle than a bonfire. Love this burning enigmatic scent so much that repeat profuse spraying is my solution! Even applied on my hair!
1/21 Edit – I applied an unscented lotion to my skin before applying, and also made sure to get it on my clothes. The fabric, and moisturized skin held the scent really well. I wore this for days on end, and it is now one of my all time loves. Gorgeous!
2/1 Edit – Still addicted to this warm, beautiful perfume. One of the best vanilla scents ever.
nesttt – :
I’m a smoke fan, so yes, I love this stuff! As eilismaireg pointed out, it’s Autumn in a bottle! A lovely scent. To my nose it is not as campfire-smokey as Naomi Goodsir’s Bois d’Ascese (which I also like a lot).
Don’t be put off by the “patchouli” in title. There is indeed an earthy, potting soil aspect to this, but it’s a well-blended mix of smoke and patch.
I don’t detect much vanilla here… I guess it modifies the raw/soil note of the patchouli more than asserts itself as sweet. This is not sweet.
I think I like this as much or more than the Tom Ford Patchouli Absolu, which is very much a potting soil scent.
Yes – I want a bottle!
SlipSpickcogs – :
This is much vanilla, smoke & leather on me. Vanilla typically stands out on my skin, so I am not surprised that I smell it while others don’t get much.
It’s nice, strong (quite strong), and I am enjoying finishing up my sample, but this isn’t a wardrobe purchase for me. I prefer Bvlgari Black for my vanilla/rubber/leather needs 🙂
ПрОвАйДеР – :
This one to me is pure smoke, roast and barbecue scent. I get burned bacon. It’s almost not a perfume scent. It makes me think of something heavy, earthy, dark. Patchouli 24 is a bit too present, it stays really on the foreground. It lasts very long and you don’t need much to smell a whole day, which is good in a way because it’s also very expensive.
chess35 – :
I find this to be similar to Comme des Garcon Black in that it is in a similar category. They are both very smokey, powerful, and woody. However, they don’t smell alike! Black is more incensy peppery smoke, and Patchouli 24 is more log cabin and old books with a sweet undertone…Smoked vanilla woods. I particularly like the dry down where Annick Mernado’s signature gourmand oriental element comes out. Slightly reminiscent of Lolita Lempicka Au Masculin’s dry down. It turns quite edible eventually when the vanilla appears from the heart note… It’s reminiscent of toasted marshmallows, or creme brûlée. A burnt vanilla!
Genrih42 – :
Is this at all similar to comme de garcons black?
jaguar-777-78 – :
Gorgeous. This potion rocks. It’s tar, wood, vanilla, leather and patchouli.
Smells like a gothic library used in a vampire story and I love it!
For those of us who are a little jaded with generic white florals, berry/toffee confections and the ouds – this stuff is the antidote!
VadimPetrovich – :
Of course this isn’t a friendly fragrance – who would want to smell like a barbecue??! But for those of us who find its depth and obscurity appealing, it has the potential to be very erotic and sensual. Graduates of Tom Ford Private Blend should try it.
Juriks59 – :
What Morkant said! That, and heres my 5 cents; A chemical opening that was anything but patchouli! Tar and Isotypes? After half an hour, it settled into a smoky, woody ‘fume that settles into a smoky, tar laden, vanillac beast that I am really enjoying. Reminds me of dark and dingy victorian places where ghosts linger. I may wear it to The Cure tonight.
This is one weird and complex perfume but after now reading who created it, I wouldn’t expect anything less! I’m giving those time, a like may turn into a love.
bananazury – :
I like it. Not a friendly fragrance. You won’t smell nice or cozy, but after a while you get used to it. Just like being in love. You just give up and realize your expectations were too high so you settle with an average person. I’m sorry if this review sucks but you shouldn’t expect anything from anyone on the Internet or life actually.
carioca – :
I agree with Houdini’s statement on patchouli never being a favorite note but frequently being indispensable as a note, usually a base note, in many favorite fragrances. While I found the dirtiness of Le Labo’s Oud 27 to be overwhelming, the dirtiness of Patchouli 24 is instead right about what works for me. The patchouli is present from the start, with a woody resinous character that lasts throughout the fragrance. The vanilla comes in later, and is slight. Usually this imbalance in favor of the earthy/spicy would problematic for me, but even the relative weakness of the vanilla in the dry down isn’t prohibitive. The composition is, on the whole, elegant, and this might actually be another bottle that I consider buying from Le Labo, if it continues to work well after a few tries. Also, it’s potent, as was Oud 27, strong on projection and longevity.
7 out of 10
ZU_Lus – :
This is a unique take for a patchouli fragrance, as the patchouli really doesn’t seem to surface until later in the wearing. This is smokey and birch tarry at the beginning, but within an hour settles into a very pleasing woody, patchouli and vanilla skin scent. Very nice! Thumbs up!
tatuorovhik – :
A few weeks ago I finally tried this, and experience the worst reaction to any fragrance I’ve ever smelt. I came home and wrote a scathing review (which I’ve since deleted) likening Patchouli 24 to a “trailer park garbage heap bonfire” and “battery acid-marinated meat sizzling under a bridge”… I really did hate it.
Another day I was trying other Le Labo stuff and I smelt 24 again out of curiosity. How could something really be that bad? This time it wasn’t disgust I felt, just confusion. The problem was that I love birch tar, styrax, camphorous smells, and most of all leather. Why wasn’t I loving Patchouli 24?
I read more about it… Decided I should try the perfume oil. Much less brine-y acridness and more smooth tar. Then a pillowy marshmallowy, caramelized vanilla finish. I was getting used to it. Tried the edp again… manageable… interesting… Could all the parts of the puzzle be coming together?
So yeah, long story short I grew to love it after about 3 or 4 samplings. I think its like how a child who takes a sip of wine or coffee will grimace and say its the worst tasting thing ever… Only to grow to love those tastes later in life.
It’s still very weird and I think it has a ‘toxic’ feel on purpose, but now I think its a masterpiece and my current favourite.
ALSO I hate patchouli. Even 31 Rue Cambon and its delicate Chanel patchouli was way too much for me. The only patchouli-ness in Patchouli 24 might be the vague earthiness or the camphor aspect.
Still, I think Le Labo’s marketing is brilliant, fragrance beginners always focus on individual notes and think they know what they like…
Bestime – :
that wet, moist, burnt wood birch tar. i see the merit in birch tar, but NOT in how it’s used here.
try before you buy…
pyncneets – :
My newest purchase and current obsession! I’m leaning heavily into patchouli scents, despite nearly gagging on a coworker’s overwhelming patch oil. I’m a woman who prefers more unisex scents. When I first bought this, I sprayed directly onto the skin, and the scent came off as very masculine. Too much so. A more diffused spray onto the body or the clothes is what really works for me. Got two compliments from girlfriends yesterday; the man I’m sleeping with complimented me every time I sprayed it on while getting dressed. Sexy stuff.
defender1985 – :
Existing in a similar universe to Goodsir’s Bois d’Ascese, SSS Fireside Intense, Le Labo’s Patchouli 24 inhabits that realm where what may have once passed for leather, is now rendered more in its raw elements of tar or birch tar. It coexists with the slightest nuance of a very smooth patchouli, but for the most part, it’s all campfire and smoke. And that’s wonderful! But beware patch fans, this isn’t going to measure up to your expectations if patchouli is it. As is common with Le Labo, the title here is something of a ruse, a ‘smoke screen’, if you’ll pardon the pun? The patch note is there, and it’s classy, but it’s in the shadows, obscured by the smoke. Then perhaps as our bonfire smolders, there were some vanilla pods thrown into the embers? An elegant vanilla, perhaps Madagascan, which after half an hour or so, takes the spikiness from the smokey tar and renders the scent bare. It pacifies the story and turns this into, in my opinion, one of the classiest of the scents in it’s olfactory neighbourhood. And that’s saying something, as there are some absolute superstars in that postcode!
Le Labo Patchouli 24. Elegant, smokey, mysterious and duty bound to turn heads.
udo139InsuffBooni – :
I don’t mean to be crass. I enjoy this scent often, though alone. But could this not work at a summer barbeque? No, really?
I would love to know what this smells like from someone also in the smoke of the grill. What would be the dominant notes to that bystander?
Edit: 5/10/15. Am I missing something? Reply @friend.
Epilteple – :
Maybe it’s my chemistry, but this is more dry than I prefer in a fragrance. It’s definitely smoky, and the patch is in there, but the birch and styrax are beasting in this one. There’s almost a tar-like quality to this – dark.
Tao_1992rik – :
Tried this today.
Starts of very lovely incense patchouli and I thought “I love this”. Then a few minutes later I’m being hit in the face with campfire smoke. Strong, wind is blowing the smoke right in my face, campfire smoke.
Yeah, pass…
semenpff – :
There’s a glimpse of patchouli at the point of application, but it’s buried within a smoky slathering of tar. Within about 15 minutes or so, the tar takes the wheel and you’re pretty much at its mercy for the rest of the ride. In typical Le Labo fashion, the name is a curveball: Patchouli 24 actually smells somewhere between road construction, an old leather jacket, and barbecue sauce. It’s an oppressive, chemical explosion that’s as intoxicating as it is toxic. The upshot, though, is that it has limited versatility.
Despite this, it’s still one of the best scents in the line. Think deep, smoldering, slightly rubbery goop and you’ll get the picture. Harsh at first, but with a soft vanilla undertone that cushions much of the brutality. It’s in the same general area as Tribute, Jeke, Bois d’Ascese etc. but with a more synthetic embrace. Good stuff, albeit spendy for what it is, and not for the faint of heart.
улицавесенняя – :
I agree with ularewolf. This is as smoky as Memoirs and they share the same theme. This is a wonderful smoky/woody scent but a total deception as I don’t smell any patch. This scent has excellent performance as well but while comparing prices it’s a no brainer. Don’t get me wrong. I love it but my wallet hates it!
savvacs92 – :
I’m shocked at the number of people who claim they can’t tell the difference between the original, darker juice and the reformulation. After falling in love with the sample I bought just prior to Le Labo messing around with the ingredients, I purchased a bottle of the new juice with the impression that it would be so similar there was no point hunting out the original. I was wrong. Patchouli 24 is now lacking something. It doesn’t have the intensity it once did. It used to smell thick, almost chewy. It’s now more a soft, powdery smokiness. It’s nice, but that’s the issue.
Glomellibly – :
Amazing fragrance. I absolutely love its smokey, leathery, vanillic body. I feel however, that some days it’s tolerable, and others it’s nauseating. I’d love to own a bottle, but it may take me a decade to use 1/2 of it. This fragrance screams like a siren or banshee. It is the perfect Halloween fragrance. Regardless, it’s something that everyone should have the pleasure of sniffing, love it or not.
EDIT: puncturedbicycle… you’re absolutely right… this does smell reminiscent of a very pungent, peaty scotch…
entebarabuche – :
A very unusual patchouli.
It opens smoky-leafy and leathery. One can easily imagine campfire or burning leafs. After an hour, the smoke softens a little, and I can smell some sweet vanilla notes. Patchouli itself is only slightly noticeable. The scent remains generally smoky all the time (with different intensity) and rewards one with balmy warm notes at the finishing.
Definitely not a candidate for everyday use, it still wins many hearts by its innovative character and its clear simplicity.
A remarkable piece of art!
white86 – :
I have both the EDP and the perfume oil. This is a review of the EDP, though I also recommend the oil.
The opening is shocking, hardcore burning black rubber, like an out-of-control tire fire at the dump. Or like asphalt roof shingles on fire, if you’ve ever smelled that. It’s peppery and not at all sweet. To my nose patchouli usually smells both dirty and sweet, like unwashed hair when someone has a flower tucked behind their ear. This is not that patchouli at all. It smells nothing like a person. It smells like a disaster at a Superfund site.
An interesting thing about Patchouli 24 is that it smells different at a distance than it does up close. I applied it to my left wrist, and I noticed that if I let my hand rest in my lap, I could, after a while, smell vanilla and much later styrax, very pretty, in with the calamitous flames. But if I brought my wrist back up to my nose, I lost all the sweetness and went straight back to burning fossil fuels.
The sillage and longevity on Patchouli 24 are both huge and murderous. This is not a fragrance for the faint of heart, but ultimately I liked it. I don’t know if I’d go for a whole bottle, but well worth the tester.
xuusernameu4 – :
I’m not really the patchouli expert, but let me first make the judgement that this is a unisex fragrance, or maybe even masculine. What you get to begin with is no Nicolai Patchouli; it is smoother, softer, sweeter and more floral, with none of the grating sharpness you sometimes find, but unfortunately just a dash of Windex. It gets less floral and more musty as the topnotes pass, with (at least the illusion of) some very heavy tobacco; this leaves it with quite a prominent incense or cigarette aspect, or even a dry post-wildfire scent. After a while, the smoke to me most resembles that from burning chaparral, the ominous smell of approaching disaster for us Californians. I’m impressed that this fragrance goes through such a sharp transition, but as far as the woodsmoke genre goes, I still need to revisit the CdG Incense Series to set the benchmark. It reminds me of Avignon, but that’s based on a rather vague memory.
4053698 – :
This and Memoirs of a Trespasser are SO similar. I can’t tell a difference when they dry down, and for Patchouli 24 that doesn’t bode well since Memoirs is cheaper and I particularly feel this starts out where Memoirs ends up about two hours into the fragrance, so it’s even less complex.
I am not discounting that this smells really good, but I’m going to stick for the cheaper (and in my opinion, better) alternative.
I’d like to point out that these two and Poivre 23 all smell similar in their drydowns. It’s a vanillic, smoky and woody smell.
adenry – :
I’m hooked on Patchouli 24! At first sniff I thought there was no way in hell I was going to like this fragrance. Like a bad car accident that I can’t look away from. It wasn’t until an hour past that I had grown extremely partial to the opening, and started picking up on an occasional hit of dry smoky vanilla, that kept my nose glued to my wrist.
I was worried about the vanilla becoming cloying since I am often annoyed by this particular note. This wasn’t the case with Patchouli 24…not at all! I must add, If this was sweeter I would be put off by it. It isn’t constantly in your face, and it presents itself every now and then.
I’m very turned on by the smoky, leathery, tar, laced with vanilla aspect more and more during the everlasting dry down. This juice is potent, justifying it’s not so modest price. Sillage is moderate, and longevity is outstanding.
9/10
Ahiles76 – :
I am not going to be as negative as some have been but I certainly don’t get any patchouli. At first, all I got is a dry, smokey, wood smell with incense. It wasn’t a bad smell but I don’t think anyone will be telling me that I smell great or attracting anyone with my seductive scent. After a few hours, I think I get a hint of vanilla but mostly still a dry, smoke-wood-incense. I like it, but I also love the way I smell after I go camping and smell like a campfire.
Demka777 – :
Smoky, raunchy opening…unfortunately gives way to a cloying vanilla backbone after just 30 minutes.
After the opening it just reminds me of many vanilla heavy perfumes I’ve smelled over the years.
Extraordinary performance, but I cannot sit through the vanilla bomb it turns into. I think there’s some tonka in here as well.
vitaschok – :
Smells like CDG Black to my nose. Tons of incense and woods with no patchouli in sight. Silage is good for about 6 hours and then it fades rapidly. Longevity is wonderful also, 8 hours and counting. I hope nobody blind bought it thinking it’s a patch dominating scent as they would be pretty pissed. If you love GPH and other classic woody scents you will love this as well.
tata1831 – :
This review is based on a sample from Le Labo. On my skin and to my nose, it smells exactly like Memoirs Of A Trespasser by Imaginary Authors with that burnt woods vanilla accord. As a big fan of birch tar (I own Lonesta