Black Orchid Eau de Toilette
The eau de toilette unfurls with a bright citrus lift over dark fruit—bergamot cutting through black currant's tartness while ylang-ylang adds its tropical weight.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Woody75
- Tuberose65
- Citrus60
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readThe eau de toilette unfurls with a bright citrus lift over dark fruit—bergamot cutting through black currant's tartness while ylang-ylang adds its tropical weight. It's a lighter interpretation of the original Black Orchid, shedding some of the heavy plum and truffle richness in favor of a cleaner, more transparent approach.
As it settles, tuberose emerges with more restraint than you'd expect, blending into a woody-resinous base where sandalwood and incense provide the backbone. Patchouli and vetiver ground the composition in earth, while vanilla softens the edges without sweetening it into gourmand territory. The overall effect lands somewhere between floral and woody oriental, more wearable in warm weather than its parfum counterpart.
This version suits those who appreciate the original's dark aesthetic but want something less opaque—still evening-appropriate, but with breathability. It maintains the Black Orchid signature while allowing the wearer more room to exist alongside it.
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.
