Velvet (Monroe)
Smoke opens dry and papery, curling around mimosa’s airy yellow pollen to create an ashy floral haze rather than dense campfire.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Smoke
- Mimosa
- Cedar
- Anise
By the editors · 2 min readSmoke opens dry and papery, curling around mimosa’s airy yellow pollen to create an ashy floral haze rather than dense campfire. Within minutes cedar arrives, splitting the haze into clean wood shavings that lift the mimosa’s soft sweetness while anise injects a cool, slightly bitter licorice snap that keeps the heart from turning creamy. The trio holds steady for hours, the smoke gradually shedding its char until only a faint suede-like ember clings to the cedar. Projection stays polite, radiating only a foot, so the scent remains a skin-level whisper best suited to cool spring days or air-conditioned offices where subtlety is valued.
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.
