Velvet Vanilla
Velvet Vanilla opens with considerable energy — pear and pink pepper reading as a spiced-fruit brightness, black currant adding depth and tartness, clove bringing the first hint of warmth to come.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Vanilla75
- Tuberose65
- Floral55
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Black Currant
- Clove
- Tuberose
- Neroli
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readVelvet Vanilla opens with considerable energy — pear and pink pepper reading as a spiced-fruit brightness, black currant adding depth and tartness, clove bringing the first hint of warmth to come. The opening is surprisingly dynamic for a fragrance whose title promises softness. Tuberose, neroli, jasmine, and rose form the heart, which is lavish by any standard: four white florals competing for space without quite canceling each other. Neroli keeps things fresh enough; tuberose pushes deepest and most memorably.
Vanilla at the base is the name's justification — smooth, full, and generous, arriving unhurried and settling the florals into something skin-warm and intimate. White musk extends the drydown without diluting it. Velvet Vanilla works best when it has time to develop; the opening is not the point. The last two hours are.
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.
