Velvet Amber Skin
Velvet Amber Skin opens with lavender and bergamot in brief — the citrus evaporates quickly, leaving the lavender to serve as a transition into the resinous heart below rather than a standalone note.
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.
- Honey80
- Leather70
- Cinnamon60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readVelvet Amber Skin opens with lavender and bergamot in brief — the citrus evaporates quickly, leaving the lavender to serve as a transition into the resinous heart below rather than a standalone note.
Labdanum, iris, and leather dominate the heart, building a dense, bittersweet accord. Rose and jasmine add floral body without softening the overall heaviness. Cinnamon begins to surface here, adding warmth without becoming bakery-sweet.
The base is a full amber construction — myrrh, opoponax, honey, and vanilla pressed into something thick and almost medicinal in its sweetness. The honey is prominent, the resins are dry, and the leather threads through to the finish. Rich, opulent, and unambiguously heavy.
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.
