Orchid K
Petitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into saffron’s hay-leather tint, setting a dry, slightly medicinal tone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Saffron
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Frankincense
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into saffron’s hay-leather tint, setting a dry, slightly medicinal tone. Magnolia lands next, its lemon-cream petals softening the saffron dust while jasmine injectters a faint indolic pulse that keeps the heart from turning too clean. The incense arrives early, threading cool pine-smoke through the florals so that vanilla’s later appearance reads as resinous instead of dessert-like. On skin the jasmine recedes first, leaving magnolia to float over a quiet ember of frankincense and a matte, almost cardboard vanilla that stays close for hours. Projection remains polite, a scented-handkerchief radius perfect for spring office days or cool summer weddings.
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.
