Prada L'Homme Velvet Edition
Black pepper and cardamom open with a sharp spicy kick that is aromatic and slightly pungent in its initial burst.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Neroli
- Cardamom
- Iris
- Violet
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and cardamom open with a sharp spicy kick that is aromatic and slightly pungent in its initial burst. Neroli adds a citrus-floral brightness that tempers the spice with a clean and slightly soapy quality. Iris and violet form a powdery floral heart that feels soft and slightly earthy against the spicy top notes. Sandalwood and cedar create a dry woody base that blends with patchouli's earthy depth and amber's faint sweetness. The fragrance evolves from a spicy aromatic opening to a powdery woody dry-down with noticeable complexity. Sillage is strong initially but settles to a moderate radius, ideal for formal or professional settings in cool weather.
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.
