Red Door Velvet
Lily of the valley and bergamot open with a soft, near-soapy freshness — bright but already leaning toward the velvet promised by the name, less zesty than powdered.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Vanilla55
- Floral55
- Musky55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Lily of the Valley
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Peony
- Freesia
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readLily of the valley and bergamot open with a soft, near-soapy freshness — bright but already leaning toward the velvet promised by the name, less zesty than powdered.
The heart is a bouquet held tight: jasmine, peony, and freesia in roughly equal measure, with peony's pink water-color softness keeping the jasmine from blooming too indolic. It reads as a single floral impression rather than three distinct flowers, the way a wrist sample at a counter blurs after thirty seconds.
The base draws the volume down: vanilla sweetness, patchouli's earthy depth, musk smoothing both into something close to bare skin. A flanker that takes the original Red Door's shoulder-padded confidence and quiets it for an indoor evening.
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.
