Nuit Velours
Black pepper snaps open with crackling dryness that immediately powders down as violet’s cool, mineral petals settle on skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Patchouli60
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Vanilla
- Violet
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with crackling dryness that immediately powders down as violet’s cool, mineral petals settle on skin. The heart layers vanilla not as dessert but as a plush, suede-like canvas that lets rose’s jammy facets bloom while keeping violet’s chalky edge alive. Patchouli arrives early, threading earthy tobacco undertones through the florals so the sweetness never cloys; instead it smolders. Sandalwood warms the dry-down, its creamy lactones fusing with musk to create a velvety skin-scent cushion that lasts close but persistent. Projection stays polite—arm’s-length whisper for the first three hours, then a private purr—making it office-safe yet after-dark ready. Best in cool weather when the pepper-violet contrast can sharpen without turning shrill.
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.
