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Patchouli 1854 Honoré Payan

8.2 / 10 37 Ratings

A popular perfume by Honoré Payan for women. The release year is unknown. The scent is earthy-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Earthy

Spicy

Woody

Resinous

Sweet

Fragrance Notes

Patchouli

Ratings

Scent

8.237 Ratings

Longevity

7.931 Ratings

Sillage

7.331 Ratings

Bottle

8.423 Ratings

Value for money

8.411 Ratings

Submitted by Yatagan · last update on 11/17/2025.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/28/2021

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Makers75
10 Reviews

Makers75

Patchouli 1854 – Center-Stage Solo Performance

Patchouli 1854 reveals the complex character of this solo star. Confident in his natural DNA, there is no need for a chorus of accompanying notes to complete the ensemble. His mystique is showcased for everyone to experience – bold but subtle, tender but deep, gentry but earthy, refined but rugged. He was not born into privilege rather endured the trials of life to obtain glory – meet Patchouli 1854.

Patchouli 1854 has come at the end of a long search which began some time ago for me. I first encountered patchouli while sampling the offerings of NICOLAÏ PARFUMEUR-CREATEUR. Patricia de Nicolaï’s work is beautiful and Patchouli Intense is a much loved all-time favorite of mine. However, with every artistic expression, Patchouli Intense reveals the artist’s interpretation of patchouli, whereas Patchouli 1854 allows you to discover his intrinsic value – not an idealistic representation, but truly who he is.

It’s oddly comforting to finally pierce the veneer to discover the natural beauty he holds. If I were to compare Patchouli Intense to Patchouli 1854, I would say Patchouli Intense by Nicolaï is walking through a blooming manicured garden early spring at first light as frost dusts the ground – your senses awakened to the announcement of new life and a new season while the dark spices of winter linger closely by, whereas Patchouli 1854 is walking through a virgin forest late on a fall evening after a soaking rain – hints of summer still persist but leaves cover the ground, the damp humid air fills with the aromas of earth, wood, and vegetation. It’s raw, natural, and enchanting.

Patchouli 1854 is a treasure.

01/13/2024

8.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Serenissima
1227 Reviews

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Serenissima

Top Review 16

my great seducer: patchouli!

So far, Grasse has always represented a city of flowers for me; I had never seen it as the home of patchouli scents.
But the perfume house Honoré Payan, founded in 1854 in Grasse, not only showcases the expected floral notes, it also reveals seductive vanilla and dreamily beautiful patchouli scents, like its “Patchouli 1854,” where even the bottle captivates the eye and awakens the desire for touch and closer acquaintance.

I can't even remember how many times over the past years I thought: “This is truly the most beautiful patchouli scent!” but just as often I had to correct myself: I kept encountering the next and the next and the next - each one more beautiful, exotic, or even just dirtier than the last; rich in truffle spores.
When will this search end?
I hope never!

And what do I feel now, as the first rich drops warm on my skin, quietly vibrating, reaching my senses, awakening and alerting them?
As they awaken, they bloom into the most beautiful flowers, just to gain enough space to be enveloped entirely by this dark scent beauty; sensual, stunning, and captivated by a fragrance flow that is unusual and utterly extraordinary.

As if awakened from a deep sleep, still a bit dazed, I encounter warm earth here, heavy with memories of many kinds, seasoned by them, infinitely sad yet comforting.
Tears, wept from joy and pain, fermented into golden honey drops.
Golden resins with mysterious inclusions.
Melted chocolate, very dark yet delicate, veined with finely drawn threads of warm spicy vanilla, flowing lazily and generously dusted with reddish-brown cocoa.

This companion reveals no more to me; it keeps its true secrets to itself.
It lures with what has been described, but gently encloses me in one of its spicy-earthy-sweet scent embraces and invites me to linger, to feel secure and let the small wounds heal.
The longevity of this scent makes it easy to accept this offer and slip into this dark-aromatic fragrance cocoon.
Should you find me here, please let me sleep!

05/22/2021

10Scent

Estefania
26 Reviews

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Estefania

Top Review 36

You always.........

....with your penchant for the old days.
Come on, tell me.....you, born in '66, the best rock dive in the countryside.
Once "beyond." Later "Rockmusik Hamlar."
Right by the Hamlar train station, a tiny village, a residential building with a pub, old sofas on the walls, otherwise just darkness.
Yes, it's true, upon entering the smell of tobacco, of grass, of everything that was forbidden
and I believe still is......and sandalwood, a little, maybe a bit stale, of alcohol, in every form, of death, of life,....
of everything.....
First kisses,.....sweaty Fruit of the Loom T-shirt...
Long hair, very long hair....
on the walls large paintings of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix....
that glow in the dark..
a tea room on the upper floor. for those who wanted to talk, perhaps about the meaning of life....
so not for you......
you only ever wanted that loud rock music, to dance to it,
...until the mind finds peace.
to feel what life is...
no clue about love. Not even today.
You always....
with your old pain....
and your unconditional
lust for life...
Many from that time
have been dead for a long time...
and always your patchouli.....
that is not easy to get rid of, that stubborn oil in the small
bottle neither,
like this here.
You always....
Come sit with me for a beer
and tell me something.....

thank you for reading.