Dark Velvet
Pink pepper and bergamot open with a brief, slightly peppery citrus that quickly gives way to the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Vanilla70
- Sweet60
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Benzoin
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and bergamot open with a brief, slightly peppery citrus that quickly gives way to the heart. Benzoin moves to the centre almost immediately, its caramelised resin warming the composition with a soft amber-vanilla glow.
The base of tonka bean and amber doubles down on that sweet-resinous mood, the tonka adding a creamy almond facet and the amber expanding into a thick balsamic warmth. With no woods or spices to break the sweetness, the composition stays uniformly cosy. Overall the character reads as a warm, dessert-leaning amber with vanilla-tonka cushioning, snug and slightly powdery, sitting close to the skin and finishing as a soft balsamic trail rather than a projecting blast.
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.
