Orange Blossom
Penhaligon's Orange Blossom is a classic British feminine floral — structured, generously layered, and built to last.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Tuberose90
- Rose60
- Vanilla30
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Neroli
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Orange
By the editors · 2 min readPenhaligon's Orange Blossom is a classic British feminine floral — structured, generously layered, and built to last. Violet leaf and neroli open together: the violet leaf's sharp, slightly green freshness provides definition; neroli's honeyed warmth rounds it immediately; bergamot adds citrus brightness; pink pepper a dry spiced edge. The heart is a confident white floral arrangement — tuberose's creamy richness, jasmine's honeyed sweetness, rose's warmth, and orange providing a citrus-floral bridge back to the opening. It's the British approach at its most characteristic: generous florals, nothing unusual, impeccably balanced.
Sandalwood and Virginia cedar form a smooth, lightly woody base; musk closes it at the skin. Penhaligon's has always understood how to make heritage construction feel contemporary without conceding its identity, and Orange Blossom exemplifies that ethos. The tuberose-jasmine heart is the warm centre; the violet leaf opening is the elegant detail. Spring and summer, formal and casual occasions equally.
Scent twins
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