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Orchid

Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab

Black orchid

Most orchids barely smell; 'black orchid' is a dark, luxurious fantasy flower.

What it is
An idea of a smell that perfumers build: there is nothing to extract it from.
How perfumers build it
Known in
Black Orchid (Tom Ford, 2006)
Worth knowing
The only orchid perfumers truly use is vanilla: the vanilla bean is an orchid's seed pod.

Named by the house in 2 of the 1080 perfumes read so far