Four Vices is a porch-after-midnight perfume. Ghost Tracer is a wet neon-street perfume. Both keep patchouli in the base. Same house. Two nights. No winner.
What Do Four Vices and Ghost Tracer Share?
Both keep patchouli in the base. That is a real shared note. It just sits in different company in each bottle.
In Four Vices, patchouli sits with oud, musk, and agarwood. In Ghost Tracer, it sits with moss, dark sandalwood, and earthy notes. The note is the same. The floor around it changes.
Both sit in oil at about 20 percent fragrance. Both come in 20 mL glass roll-ons. Both are $50 for 20 mL. Full bottle stories live on What Is Four Vices Perfume? and What Is Ghost Tracer Perfume?.
How Does a Porch Differ From a Wet Neon Street?
Four Vices sits somewhere between Saturday night and Sunday morning coming down. Green hashish opens it. Tobacco, coffee, and herbal hops fill the middle. Violet softens that heart before oud and agarwood settle the base.
Ghost Tracer is set in 2225 AD. Fallen rain hits concrete while neon signs flicker and buzz. Bergamot and violet leaf keep the air cool and green. The freesia, cyclamen, and fungus heart brings flowers and damp growth to the street. Fallen Rain belongs to Ghost Tracer alone.
Violet and violet leaf sound alike, but they are two different notes. Violet sits in the Four Vices heart. Violet leaf sits in the Ghost Tracer top.
One night stays on the porch with tobacco and coffee. One night walks wet concrete under neon. Life isn't binary. Anyone can buy either.
Where Do the Notes Sit in Each Bottle?
Four Vices: TOP Green Hashish | MIDDLE Tobacco, Coffee, Hops, Spice, Violet | BASE Oud, Musk, Patchouli, Agarwood. Oud and agarwood share that base. Oud vs Agarwood in Perfume explains why those are two names on one table.
Ghost Tracer: TOP Bergamot, Fallen Rain, Violet Leaf | MIDDLE Freesia, Cyclamen, Fungus | BASE Moss, Patchouli, Dark Sandalwood, Earthy Notes. Moss and dark sandalwood hold the floor with the patchouli.
Patchouli is the only note on both tables. Everything else splits. Both are $50 for 20 mL. See Four Vices and Ghost Tracer.
How Do You Choose Between Them?
Pick the night you want. The porch calls for something low and smoky that stays close. The wet street calls for something cool and green with damp ground under it. Some days call for one. Other days call for the other.
If patchouli is the note you love, both bottles have it. Four Vices pairs it with tobacco and oud. Ghost Tracer pairs it with rain and moss.
More ways to decide sit in How to Pick a Perfume, Four Vices and Desert Road, Four Vices and Norse Winter, Black Sails and Four Vices, Bold Fortune and Four Vices, Four Vices vs Temple Smoke, Four Vices and Old Money, Ghost Tracer and Temple Smoke, Ghost Tracer and Norse Winter, Ghost Tracer and Desert Road, Bold Fortune and Ghost Tracer, and Black Sails and Ghost Tracer. The rest of the line is in the perfume collection. Anyone can buy either bottle.
Defy Common Scents.