Black Velvet
Pineapple, neroli, raspberry, and lemon open with a loud, fruity-citrus burst — the pineapple and raspberry providing sweetness and tropical richness while neroli and lemon cut through with brighter, sharper accents.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather60
- Mossy60
- Fruity60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Neroli
- Raspberry
- Lemon
- Sage
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readPineapple, neroli, raspberry, and lemon open with a loud, fruity-citrus burst — the pineapple and raspberry providing sweetness and tropical richness while neroli and lemon cut through with brighter, sharper accents. The opening is dense and assertive.
Sandalwood, oakmoss, leather, vetiver, amber, patchouli, and nutmeg build a surprisingly complex, chypre-inflected base. Leather and oakmoss form a classic backbone, with vetiver adding earthiness and patchouli deepening the resinous quality. Nutmeg contributes a spiced warmth.
The contrast between the fruity-tropical opening and the deeply mossy, leathery base is dramatic. This is an ambitious composition that changes character significantly across its dry-down. A layered fragrance with more to explore than most in this category.
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.
