Velvet Splendour
Mandarin ignites the opening with bright, sun-warmed zest that quickly folds into a plush mimosa-orange blossom heart, lending pollen-sweet fluff and faint hay.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Leather70
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
- Orange Blossom
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
- Mimosa
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readMandarin ignites the opening with bright, sun-warmed zest that quickly folds into a plush mimosa-orange blossom heart, lending pollen-sweet fluff and faint hay. Opoponax resin and patchouli ground the glow, threading earthy-bitter green through the blond leather panel that soon dominates. That leather is suede-soft yet tobacco-dark, cradling the tonka’s almond-coumarin warmth until skin smells like cured leaves inside a new driving glove. Projection stays within arm’s reach for six hours, then settles to a creamy blond wood hum laced with faint ambergris shadow. Cool autumn days, cashmere scarves and weekday offices welcome its polite swagger.
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.
