Serge Lutens · 2014

L'Orpheline

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Cool peppermint and bergamot over frankincense and soft musk, with patchouli and clove underneath.

Serge Lutens says

You’ll smell frankincense.

More from Serge Lutens’s description

It also mentions Incense and Musk.

The house’s page

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The drawn L'Orpheline bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

L'Orpheline’s scent picture, a draft: frankincense, musk, patchouli, clove, mint, bergamot drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

L'Orpheline, when you spray it: Frankincense, Mint, Bergamot

As it settlesheart notes

L'Orpheline, as it settles: Clove, Citronellol (rose)

What staysdry-down notes

L'Orpheline, what stays: Musk, Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Serge Lutens names

What the label names

19 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

4 citrus7 herbs & lavender1 florals2 woods1 sweet4 spices

9 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

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