Patchouli ManiaGourmand Woody Eau de Parfum

Patchouli Mania by Essential Parfums is a niche woody, gourmand and chypre eau de parfum, unisex, created by Fabrice Pellegrin.

The perfumer takes center stage

Essential Parfums is a Paris-based house founded in 2018 by Géraldine Archambault, which turns the usual logic on its head: the perfumer's name is on the bottle, and the creation takes precedence over the packaging. Its approach can be summed up in one sentence: "simplicity as the ultimate luxury". The house gives every nose the same brief: create a unisex fragrance around an inspiring natural raw material, with complete creative freedom. Ten perfumers responded, including Calice Becker, Anne Flipo, Olivier Pescheux, Nathalie Lorson, Quentin Bisch, Sophie Labbé and Fabrice Pellegrin. By limiting packaging and marketing expenses, the house reinvests in the raw materials: its formulas contain between 86 and 93% ingredients of natural origin and are vegan. Refillable 100 ml bottle.

An opening of davana, green hazelnut and coriander

Davana opens with its dried fruit facets, while green hazelnut — green, not roasted — brings a vegetal bitterness. Coriander seed spices up the opening.

A heart of cacao, clearwood and tea

Cacao establishes its powdery bitterness, clearwood a clean and woody patchouli, and tea a tannic dryness.

A base of patchouli, vetiver and cetalox

Natural patchouli unfolds its damp earth, vetiver its root, and cetalox a mineral amber warmth that extends the longevity.

The house's signature touch

Two patchoulis, one of which is obtained through biotechnology. The clearwood in the heart is a patchouli fractionated by fermentation: cleaner, woodier, stripped of its camphorous facet. Paired with the natural patchouli in the base, it gives two interpretations of the same root in a single fragrance — exactly the house's brief, one raw material and one perfumer. And the green hazelnut at the top announces the cacao without betraying it.

For whom, for what occasions?

Woody, gourmand and chypre, this eau de parfum is aimed at patchouli lovers as well as those who are put off by the word. It gives its best from autumn to winter, in the evening. It is also available as a 150 ml refill.

With Patchouli Mania Essential Parfums, the same root is interpreted twice in a single bottle.