Velvet Haze
Velvet Haze opens with an unexpectedly muted sweetness—coconut milk rather than suntan oil, softened by ambrette's subtle musk.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Chocolate70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Coconut
- Ambrette
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Patchouli
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readVelvet Haze opens with an unexpectedly muted sweetness—coconut milk rather than suntan oil, softened by ambrette's subtle musk. The tuberose that emerges is far from the white-hot indolic bloom found in classic florals; here it's veiled, almost ghostly, wrapped in powdery cocoa and the earthy pull of patchouli. Osmanthus adds a apricot-suede texture that keeps the composition from turning too clean or too heavy.
What develops is a skin-close haze that lives up to its name: plush, slightly narcotic, neither gourmand nor traditionally floral. The cashmeran gives it a synthetic cashmere warmth that some will find comforting, others sterile. This is Byredo's take on a bohemian fantasy—sandalwood replaced by creamy woods, incense by cocoa dust. Best suited to those who want presence without projection, sweetness without sugar.
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.
