Mandarine Orchidée
With no top notes the composition opens directly in the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readWith no top notes the composition opens directly in the heart. Jasmine and rose lead together — the jasmine creamy and slightly indolic, the rose pink and soft rather than jammy. Despite the name's promise of mandarin and orchid, the actual structure reads as a simple jasmine-rose pairing.
The middle is brief because there's no real evolution to track. The two florals carry the composition forward without much development, staying pretty and unaccented through the heart phase.
Sandalwood and musk close things out warm and skin-close — sandalwood creamy, musk smoothing the finish. Overall the character is a soft, uncomplicated rose-jasmine floral with a quiet woody-musky landing, suited to daily wear in spring or fall. Projection stays modest and the composition reads as approachable rather than memorable.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
