Velvet Love
Velvet Love is built around carnation — peppery, clove-tinged, the floral that always smelled a little like a kitchen spice cupboard.
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.
- Floral75
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pepper
- Ylang-Ylang
- Carnation
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readVelvet Love is built around carnation — peppery, clove-tinged, the floral that always smelled a little like a kitchen spice cupboard. A fine grind of pepper opens it; ylang-ylang, creamy and faintly banana-like, fills out the heart.
The composition stays narrow on purpose. There is no busy fruit basket, no powder, no resinous base — just a single flower in close-up, lifted by spice and smoothed by the tropical creaminess of ylang.
It belongs to the early Velvet Collection's Italian-garden romanticism: small, warm, faintly old-world. Wear it as a skin-close evening floral; expect intimate sillage and moderate longevity, with the spice fading first and the creamy ylang lingering on warm skin.
Scent twins
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