Velvet Incenso
Velvet Incenso earns its name honestly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Smoky85
- Balsamic70
- Amber65
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Elemi
- Incense
- Labdanum
- Amberwood
- Cashmere Wood
By the editors · 2 min readVelvet Incenso earns its name honestly. Elemi resin opens with a sharp, citrusy-piney bite that functions like a cleaner before the main event: incense and labdanum together, dry and churchly, smoldering without apology. The top-note contrast between elemi's brightness and black pepper's dryness is brief but effective.
The base is where the velvet arrives. Benzoin adds sweetness, cashmere wood and amberwood lend warmth, vanilla rounds the hard edges, and patchouli provides dark green depth. The composition holds its shape for hours — dense, meditative, better worn in cold weather or quiet evenings. Within the Velvet Collection, it sits at the darker end.
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.
