Velvet Wood
Velvet Wood is exactly what the name says — a fragrance built around the smell of lacquered, polished hardwood.
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.
- Woody85
- Leather70
- Warm Spicy50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Ebony
- Black Leather
- Leather
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readVelvet Wood is exactly what the name says — a fragrance built around the smell of lacquered, polished hardwood. There is no top-note hook here, no citrus or spice spike. The composition opens already in its heart, with galbanum's bitter green resin and the dry abstract idea of ebony.
A black leather base rises slowly, less an animalic note than a furniture-store accord — tanned, stitched, almost waxy. Rodrigo Flores-Roux composed it as a near-monolithic statement: tight, austere, deliberately small in vocabulary.
It is unusual among the Velvet Collection for refusing all sweetness. Wear in cool weather, expect skin-close projection and longevity that varies by chemistry; the leather is the part that lingers.
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.
