Comments on: Perfume review ~ Le Labo Patchouli 24

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 01 May 2011 16:33:39 +0000

I need to revisit since I’m running out of Black — maybe I’d rather have Patchouli 24 now. Except it costs so much more!

By: Subhuman

Subhuman — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:31:05 +0000

Being a lover of both Bulgari Black and Annick Menardo’s style in general, I had to give Patch 24 a shot. It didn’t disappoint – in fact, it made the biggest impression of all the samples I ordered recently from LuckyScent. (The batch included the likes of CdG Avignon and Tauer Desert Marocain, so that tells you something about 24′s distinctiveness!) It’s simply unlike anything I’ve smelled come out of a perfume bottle, and yet it’s rather easily legible – smoke, wood, lapsang souchong tea (and loads of it), boozy vanilla, tar, and musk. It shimmers and changes shape on the skin like very few scents I’ve experienced, and it lasts a dog’s age. Bizarre and addictive. I’m jonesing for a full bottle something fierce.

Vetiver 46 was my other fave out of the bunch; what a fabulous scent it is. Sophisticated yet sprightly, with just the right about of dark earthiness.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:13:58 +0000

I’m not sure I could have answered at all — you came up w/ the perfect description!

By: Blimunda

Blimunda — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:03:53 +0000

Well – this is very difficult to answer! I like Bulgari better, I think, as I like the rubbery note and it’s general subtlety. I think it is a darker scent too. it’s something I would wear for an evening out, as I find it very sophisticated. I wish it were longer lasting, or came in a stronger concentration!
The Patchouli is more of a day scent to me, and has an outdoorsy quality and seems brighter and crackling with more energy. It’s very long lasting though, which is its advantage, and comes in a stronger concentration that the Bulgari.
They are both very unique scents and I am happy to own both of them!!

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:14:50 +0000

So which do you like better, the Le Labo or the Bvlgari?

By: Blimunda

Blimunda — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:42:51 +0000

Well, sadly LIberty’s discontinued Eau D’Italie. But they have Le Labo and Frederic Malle, L’Artisan and Keiko Mecheri.
My sample of Patchouli 24 arrived, and I am absolutely adoring it – which is good news, as it was a lemming! I find the vanilla based dry-down lends a very odd counterpoint to the sharp skankiness of the other layers. It’s not quite as ‘wearable’ as I’d imagined (probably because I has Bulgari Black lodged so firmly in my mind as a comparison) but since ‘unwearable’ is right up my street it’s not a problem. I also tried Le Labo’s Poivre. I was interested in the high oil concentration in Poivre, and it left a silky, shiny residue on my wrist for hours afterwards. It’s a beautiful scent, really, really nicely done. And it got better and better into the dry down. I wish TPC was doing a special decant sale on that too!!!!!!!!!!

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:02:51 +0000

Oh, fun!

By: Blimunda

Blimunda — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:47:44 +0000

Ah, OK – I was browsing through TPC on the off chance there’d be some fun deals……….low and behold, they are doing discount prices on a few scents i want to sample…..this being one of them!! (the others being Jasmine de Nuit and Sienne L’Hiver.) In a nutshell, I adore Bulgari Black and would LOVE a BB Extreme, so i totally lemming’d 8mls of this stuff !!! I’ve got the day off work, and was going to clean the house and do chores, but now I think i’ll make a trip into London and visit Liberty’s to test out the entire Eau D’Italie line……and maybe Frederic Malle while I’m at it………YES!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:19:31 +0000

It's lovely stuff, glad you are enjoying it.

In all fairness, I dont' think Le Labo claims the scents smell like the names — the names just indicate the fragrance note with the highest concentration.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:57:35 +0000

Being a lover of patchouli I was naturally excited when I saw this one listed as one of the top ten orientals in Turin and Sanchez's “Perfumes: The Guide.” My sample came in the mail a few days ago, and now that I'm finally wearing it, it's worth the excitement. However, I have to agree with some of Turin's assessments of the other Le Labo fragrances where he says they rarely smell like what they're named after. Patchouli is a drug to me, but I can't find it in Patchouli 24! Wherever it is, it's amidst the burning pile of wood and leather, as if someone threw their bottle of hippie scent onto a book-burning.

That being said, I still have instant love of this stuff. I do happen to be wearing it alongside Bvlgari Black, and going from wrist to wrist, I can see their commonality. Both were born in the Goodyear factory! I battled for a long time with Black, taking months to finally see the genius that she is. Being smacked across the face with rubber, Black seemed unwearable (how silly!). Having Patchouli 24 on, Black seems tame. Black is sweet where 24 just burns. You can take Black out onto the town and be sociable but 24 sits in the corner and waits for its prey to come to it. They are different creatures, and for that I could see owning both fragrances (although I am a glutton and would indulge in both). When you want to be nice, wear Black. When you want to cut someone, wear the 24!