Midnight Train Prada 2017

First of all: I belong to the patchouli admirers, but I am a critical one. It must not smell like perfume oil spilled on ponchos in the 90s, nor should it be overloaded with citrus accords.
Patchouli can smell so good - and so unbearable.
For years, I searched and found nothing that truly appealed to me in the way I envisioned a patchouli perfume. Years ago, Bois 1920's Real Patchouli came close to my idea (though it was a bit too vanilla-infused for my taste). Close.
Then a few years ago, Tom Ford's Patchouli Absolu came along, and I was immediately smitten. That was exactly the scent I had imagined for years. Still one of my absolute fragrance favorites!
In the meantime, over the last few years, I have occasionally sniffed and searched for another patchouli scent that would blow me away - or at least please me.
Highly recommended in various forums and perfumeries were, among others, Etro, House of Oud, and Perris Monte Carlo. But even there, everything smelled too altered for my nose. Etro was too oriental and incense-like for me, PMC was too citrus-heavy, and HOU basically only smelled of (synthetic) rose; and that in almost unbearable intensity.
When I then had the opportunity to test Midnight Train, that feeling was there immediately. I was in love with a scent.
Yes, here too, the patchouli is blended with other (wonderful) accords. But everything fits together here, and the dark-warm patchouli keeps coming to the forefront despite all the other facets.
This is my first review, so I’m not quite sure how to ultimately describe the scent or conclude the evaluation.

Midnight Train is a dark-warm and earthy fragrance. It smells woody, of trees, firs, and cedars, and bittersweet honey. And beneath and above all this hangs a mist of that very dark-warm patchouli.
Past: Alone on the train to nowhere. In the middle of the night. The tracks lead through the fog-covered autumn forest. Here and there a ray of the rising sun.

Great scent, I've already ordered the 100ml at Selfridges and I look forward to every spray!