Wild Orchid
Honey dominates the opening, pouring thick beeswax over bright bergamot and sweet orange zest, creating an almost candied citrus glaze.
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.
- Honey50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Honey
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readHoney dominates the opening, pouring thick beeswax over bright bergamot and sweet orange zest, creating an almost candied citrus glaze. Jasmine and orange blossom step in quickly, their white petals dusted with the lingering honey so the floral heart feels syrupy rather than fresh. Sandalwood arrives early in the dry-down, its creamy planks soaking up the residual sugar while myrrh and labdanum supply a soft incense shadow that keeps the confection from tipping into toothache territory. Wear it two sprays and the scent stays within arm’s reach for a full workday, slowly shedding its citrus sparkle and settling into a skin-hugging ambered wood glow that smells like honeyed sun-warmed skin rather than perfume. Cool fall days and unheated offices suit it best.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
