Velvet Tender Oud
Velvet Tender Oud sits at the soft end of the oud spectrum — there is no medicinal barnyard here, no smoke, no shock.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Rose85
- Woody70
- Oud70
- Cherry
The note pyramid
- Sweet Almond
- Almond
- Suede
- Rose de Mai
- Damask Rose
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readVelvet Tender Oud sits at the soft end of the oud spectrum — there is no medicinal barnyard here, no smoke, no shock. Sweet almond opens the composition with a gourmand whisper, immediately handing off to a generous double rose: damask and rose de Mai, jammy and honeyed.
The oud arrives mannered and Western, treated as a woody accord rather than a raw resin, supported by a clean abstract woody base. It is the Velvet Collection's interpretation of Middle Eastern rose-oud: legible to noses raised on European florals, polished where the original is smoldering.
Suited to cool evenings and indoor settings; longevity is solid, projection moderate. A rose for those who find pure rose too thin.
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.
