Orchid Powder
Orchid Powder opens tropical and heady — ylang-ylang and orchid land immediately, bergamot providing just enough lift to keep the opening from becoming suffocating.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 21 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.
- Chocolate70
- Floral65
- Rose55
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Orchid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Orris
- Coconut
- White Peach
By the editors · 2 min readOrchid Powder opens tropical and heady — ylang-ylang and orchid land immediately, bergamot providing just enough lift to keep the opening from becoming suffocating. The heart is the composition's most complex stage: jasmine, rose, and violet share space with white peach and a coconut-adjacent sweetness, while orris and sandalwood introduce a powdery dry-wood quality underneath. Benzoin and vanilla in the base sweeten the finish toward something almost confectionary.
This is a dense, warm-floral construction that treats gourmand and floral as a single register rather than distinct phases. The powdery iris note in the heart persists through the dry-down, giving it a slightly retro character. Best suited to fall evenings or casual settings where a rich, enveloping presence is welcome.
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.
