Black Orchid Voile de Fleur
Tom Ford's Black Orchid launched with a certain reputation for darkness — truffle, black orchid absolute, something vaguely illicit.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Black Pepper
- Lily
- Plum
By the editors · 2 min readTom Ford's Black Orchid launched with a certain reputation for darkness — truffle, black orchid absolute, something vaguely illicit. Voile de Fleur takes the same skeleton and lightens it considerably. The opening is brighter: black currant's slight tartness against ylang-ylang's honeyed cream. The heart is unambiguously floral, gardenia and lily softening what Black Orchid made shadowy. Cinnamon, vanilla, and patchouli in the base hold enough warmth to keep it from floating away entirely, but the overall effect is translucent — a sheer version of something that was once opaque. For those who admired the original's structure but wanted something they could wear to work.
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.
