Patchouli (Eau de Toilette) by Réminiscence

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Collection Patchouli

Patchouli Réminiscence 1970 Eau de Toilette

7.8 / 10 405 Ratings

A popular perfume by Réminiscence for women and men, released in 1970. The scent is earthy-woody. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Earthy

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Patchouli

Cedarwood

Heart Notes

Sandalwood Vetiver

Vetiver

Base Notes

Tonka bean Vanilla

Vanilla

White musk

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Ratings

Scent

7.8405 Ratings

Longevity

8.0336 Ratings

Sillage

7.6332 Ratings

Bottle

7.6311 Ratings

Value for money

8.6170 Ratings

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection Collection Patchouli.

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Reviews

28 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/26/2025

6Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Ceesie
142 Reviews

Ceesie

Helpful Review 5

All-devouring dampness

Patchouli has always been a mysterious note to me. When I was younger I always thought it was supposed to be a fresh kind of smell. Probably because of the name, or because of associations with certain scented candles we used to have.

Anyway, I wanted to know more about it and started hunting perfumes with a typical patchouli scent. Sometimes very moldy, earthy, green. Sometimes damp, heavy, cloying. Allright, so there’s a whole spectrum of smells.

This being one of the most famous and typical, I blind bought it. It didn’t cost much, the presentation is cheap as well. But smelling it…. aha! It’s definitely on one far side of the spectrum! The cloying one mind you. Immediately I recognize that smell, a smart shop I once visited smelled exactly like this. I get the hippie references right away. It’s damp, it’s sweet, it projects like crazy and even though it’s an edt it lasts all day long. All 24 hours of it. It devours all other smells in its path.

Now I’m older, having a respectable job and having lost my wild hair, I don’t really like that association anymore. It leans feminine as well, probably because of the heavy duty vanilla or white musk. Don’t get me wrong, patchouli is one of my favorite notes in perfumes but in my case it should be the opposite side of the spectrum and as a sidenote, not as the main dish.

I enjoyed the ride but I decided to sell the bottle in the end.

02/19/2021

9Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

HannahHoch
11 Reviews

HannahHoch

Helpful Review 5

Eureka! the very best patchouli!

There are many patchoulis, but value for money, I have not smelled any as good as Patchouli from Reminiscences. It is a perfume that has been produced since the 70s and has not lost an iota of charm. Psycodelique de Jovoy reminds me a lot, but this one is more liquor, more abrupt, more rock and roll.

08/31/2023

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

OdorAeternus
27 Reviews

OdorAeternus

Helpful Review 4

A reference patchouli

First, you should know that patchouli is a very earthy, damp, balsamic, extremely strong, and dirty scent. I read a book from NEZ all about patchouli and this fragrance was referenced several times in the book. This fragrance is iconic and one of the most important (if not the most important) patchouli fragrances in perfumery history.

Totally unisex. Remember, this is a fragrance from 1970, more than 50 years ago, don’t expect a modern scent like miss Dior, YSL libre etc. I have GOOD NEWS for those of you who have this fragrance and do not like it, I found that this fragrance is a perfect choice for layering with a vanilla, chocolate, or gourmand fragrance .. you can try layering it with one of your gourmand or sweet fragrances

09/24/2023

7Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Ringtale
142 Reviews

Ringtale

5

A perfume-y Patchouli

This is a more 'perfume-y' kind of patch than patchouli-oils and such. Thus, it doesn't necessarily take me back to the sixties or seventies. It actually has an even more 'vintage' or rather a more 'ancient' vibe to it in my opinion and that's why I like this patchouli.
I read many reviews on different platforms, some saying it doesn't last, some saying it lasts forever and that goes for the origninal version in the bottle with stars printed on it as well as for this latest version and so I think that is a matter of chemistry. My skin seems to love patchouli when it concerns longevity. Patchouli always performs like a very prominent and long lasting note on my skin when I wear scents containing patchouli, so this scent lasts on me for ages.
I like to use this light handed, because it projects like a beast and too much can kill it's beauty.
I also had read that there is a chocolate note in this scent, I had to smell it to understand that this doesn't mean you will smell like chocolate (lol :-)), but that you may think of chocolate when smelling this. I wouldn't have thought of it though, if I had not read this, so I wouldn't call this 'gourmand'.
There is a slight 'boudoir' and 'sweet powder make-up' kind of feel to this scent (probably coming from sandalwood and labdanum) as well, which - to me - makes it less masculine than I feared when reading some reviews.
Be careful with light coloured clothing because this can stain your clothes.

Updated on 04/10/2024

01/20/2024

8.5Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

Shpeeep
9 Reviews

Shpeeep

4

Delicious, dark, dry vanilla patchouli

I was born in the 1990s so I cannot speak to the context of this fragrance, though wearing it today felt like microdosing time travel. Not because it smells particularly dated (unless I really try to see it as a 'women's' fragrance rather than the obvious unisex it is to today's nose), just because it feels comfortingly familiar while also being different from anything I'm actually familiar with. It smells 'young' and unconventional, but established and sensible. Most of all it smells DEEP, like the notes just before they drop out of the register of my ears (well, nose in this case). Resinous and dry, it's not 'patchouli essential oil instead of deoderant' 1970s, but something entirely it's own. I feel like I smell as though I read books with an indifference to genre but a deft instinct for quality. Linear scent, which I don't think is a bad thing. Compared to contemporary perfumes it's almost as though this doesn't have any opening top notes, though you can smell the alcohol when you first apply it and that makes it smell like cherry brandy and amaretto in the air. I did drink a lychee juice whilst wearing this and I think some indie or niche perfumer today could play around with a base similar to Patchouli but overlayed with some sweet lychee and neroli or something. It is still lovely and present but not overpowering at the 7.5 hour mark. In fact, it hadn't really faded since the first hour, so it's similar from the end of the first hour up until about how eight, then fades slightly but still there at 11 hours on skin. I'd be hesitant to put this on clothes as it's a deep red-brown wood colour, and ever so slightly oily.

Edit: Second day wearing patchouli, and I am noticing the vanilla and sandalwood much more than yesterday, possibly because it's warmer today and opening the fragrance up a tad. It's actually addictive. It's a completely non-gourmand amberry vanilla. I think that on a feminine woman this would be read as a 'sexy' scent, but on a man or would read more elegant/classy. It becomes a skin scent eventually after a very long presence with projection dependant on application strength, and it sticks for about 16 hours. Unlike anything else I have tried so far.

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