Velvet
Velvet opens with pomegranate and raspberry over a grounding fig — tart, saturated, the fruits bright without tipping into candy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Rose70
- Patchouli60
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Pomegranate
- Raspberry
- Fig
- Bulgarian Rose
- Lily
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readVelvet opens with pomegranate and raspberry over a grounding fig — tart, saturated, the fruits bright without tipping into candy. The heart is a full floral arrangement: Bulgarian rose at center, lily lending clean green-white contrast, heliotrope threading in cherry-vanilla powder that softens the tart opening. Saffron in the base bridges fruit to earth, connecting the warm florals to a patchouli-musk foundation that prevents the composition from going sugary.
Accessible orientalism — something warm and fruited that wears without demanding attention. The saffron-patchouli base gives it more staying power than a typical Avon feminine.
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.
