Patchouli Soliflore. natural perfume. chocolate foil wrapper, menthol, dinosaur dirt, tobacco, prehistoric mist, tar, swamp, paper, bittersweet cacao, root beer. August 2023

Patchouli Soliflore. a l c h e m y ☽•☾Chocolate foil wrapper, menthol, dinosaur dirt, tobacco, prehistoric mist, tar, swamp, paper, bittersweet cacao, root beer. This composition has been a long time coming, and it is probably my most requested single note perfume. As a patchouli lover, I knew I had to make this the pièce de résistance among my patchouli compositions. It had to be deep and dark, as well as playful and crisp, capturing all the self-contradictory nuances of the wondrous herb, Pogostemon cablin. I used my in house patchouli absolute (seen in photos), an inky rich paste that I extracted and aged from my own Pogostemon cablin plants that I grew from open pollinated seed in the Wild Veil gardens in Vermont. So you have the terroir of Vermont, with clay soil as black as the resulting absolute, factoring in in an unusual way. I paired this unique aromatic with 10 of my prized patchouli oils from Indonesia and India, all aged to varying degrees. Some barely, and a few I have ag