Black Orchid Perfume Lalique Edition
Gardenia and ylang-ylang open plush and creamy, their buttery petals dripping with black-currant syrup sharpened by bergamot.
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.
- Chocolate60
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia and ylang-ylang open plush and creamy, their buttery petals dripping with black-currant syrup sharpened by bergamot. The heart keeps the white bouquet but lets jasmine’s indole edge push forward, turning the creamy volume slightly carnal while incense smoke begins to rise underneath. As the base settles, dark chocolate folds into sandalwood and vanilla, creating a bitter-cocoa wood fondant that is dusted with patchouli earth and kept from gourmand excess by a dry vetiver ribbon. Sillage projects an arm-length floral-chocolate haze for hours, then collapses into a musky amber skin-glow that still carries a ghost of gardenia. Cool evenings, statement coat required.
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.
