Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab
Orchid
No orchid flower is extracted for perfume and most have little smell; the note is the scent perfumers decided an orchid should have.
- What it is
- A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Libre Intense (Yves Saint Laurent, 2020)
- Worth knowing
- W. A. Poucher's orchid base, his formula No. 1085, is half amyl salicylate.
Named by the house in 14 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
Jubilation XXV ManAmouage · “Orchid”
FlowerbombViktor&Rolf · “orchid”
LibreYSL · “living orchid accord”
L'Aventure GoldAl Haramain · “Orchid”
YaraLattafa · “Orchid”
Wisal DhahabAjmal · “Orchid”
OscarOscar de la Renta · “Orchid”
CK IN2U for HerCalvin Klein · “Orchid”
HappyClinique · “morning dew orchid”
Red DoorElizabeth Arden · “orchids”
Reaction For HerKenneth Cole · “White Orchid”
Room ServiceVilhelm Parfumerie · “Pink Orchid”
Black OrchidTom Ford · “Tom Ford black orchid”
Velvet OrchidTom Ford · “Tom Ford Black Orchid”