La Petite Robe Noire Velours
La Petite Robe Noire Velours takes the cherry-and-almond grammar of the original and turns up the register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Sweet75
- Rose65
- Amber55
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Almond
- Violet
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLa Petite Robe Noire Velours takes the cherry-and-almond grammar of the original and turns up the register. Bergamot and sour cherry start it off clean and bright; the transition into the heart is where the name earns its keep — almond pulls rose and violet into a soft, almost confectionery accord, warm the way a scarf carries the residue of something dessert-adjacent rather than overtly sweet. Black tea and tonka bean in the base add a useful dryness that keeps the sweetness calibrated. Patchouli provides depth without darkening the profile. A plush, nocturnal take on the LPRN family, most at home in autumn chill and evening settings.
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.
