Velvet Lavender
Lavender opens cool and camphoraceous, immediately sweetened by a fuzzy apricot skin that muffles the herb’s sharper edges while bergamot adds a brief citrus flash.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Apricot
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Clary Sage
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cool and camphoraceous, immediately sweetened by a fuzzy apricot skin that muffles the herb’s sharper edges while bergamot adds a brief citrus flash. The heart doubles down on lavender, now joined by clary sage whose bittersweet green facet stretches the aromatic ribbon until it feels almost suede-like, a texture reinforced by the fruit’s soft fade. As the sage settles, the lavender loses its lift and sinks into a creamy sandalwood that warms the composition with a blond-wood creaminess, while clean white musks blur the edges into a skin-close haze. Projection stays polite, hovering just inside personal space for about five hours, making it an easy daytime choice for spring offices or cool summer brunches where scent should whisper rather than shout.
Scent twins
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