Velvet Tuberose
Velvet Tuberose opens with ylang-ylang and magnolia pushing forward together — a dense, heady pairing softened by apricot and lemon that keep it from reading as purely tropical.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
- Tuberose95
- Amber30
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Magnolia
- Ylang-Ylang
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lemon
- Apricot
- Apricot
By the editors · 2 min readVelvet Tuberose opens with ylang-ylang and magnolia pushing forward together — a dense, heady pairing softened by apricot and lemon that keep it from reading as purely tropical. The heart is the centerpiece: tuberose at full volume, supported by gardenia and jasmine. A fig-leaf note weaves through, grounding the florals with a green, slightly milky undertone.
Sandalwood and a light spice component in the base give the dry-down warmth without competing with the floral core. This is a white floral built for projection — it announces itself and persists. Best suited for evenings or occasions where a bold, unambiguous floral is appropriate. An unapologetic example of the type.
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.