Opium Orchidée de Chine
Opium Orchidée de Chine opens with a spiced mandarin brightness — zesty citrus threaded through warm spice, freshened by a neroli lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Amber80
- Vanilla60
- Floral60
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Spices
- Mandarin Orange
- Orchid
- Jasmine
- Carnation
By the editors · 2 min readOpium Orchidée de Chine opens with a spiced mandarin brightness — zesty citrus threaded through warm spice, freshened by a neroli lift. The floral heart arrives softly, orchid and carnation weaving with jasmine into something gentler than Opium's original drama. The base settles into nutmeg-warmed amber, vanilla and iris anchoring it with a powdery depth that reads as warm skin rather than heavy incense.
This is a significantly lighter interpretation of the Opium line — the oriental heaviness is present but subdued. The patchouli is soft, the amber accessible. A good choice for those who find the original Opium too dense but want the same warm-floral character in a more wearable format.
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.
