The Orchid Man
The Orchid Man opens with black pepper and bergamot — a terse, composed greeting before leather takes over the heart alongside jasmine.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Leather65
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Jasmine
- Oakmoss
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readThe Orchid Man opens with black pepper and bergamot — a terse, composed greeting before leather takes over the heart alongside jasmine. It's an unusual pairing: jasmine's indolic sweetness pulled tight by the cool restraint of the leather accord. Frapin, the cognac house, brings that same sense of aged materials and unhurried craft.
Oakmoss, patchouli, and amber in the base anchor it firmly in chypre territory — earthy, slightly animalic, darkening as the hours pass. The sillage is measured and purposeful; this isn't a fragrance that radiates. It's worn close, discovered by the room only when you've already left it. For evenings that don't require explanation.
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.
