Velorum
Velorum opens like a spice cabinet thrown open — ginger, black pepper, cardamom, and saffron over a rose that gives the whole top a faintly metallic, almost bloody warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Vanilla70
- Amber70
- Cinnamon60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Cinnamon
- Almond
By the editors · 2 min readVelorum opens like a spice cabinet thrown open — ginger, black pepper, cardamom, and saffron over a rose that gives the whole top a faintly metallic, almost bloody warmth. The heart turns dessert-adjacent without going gourmand: cinnamon and clove deepen the spice, almond and nutmeg round the edges, and the composition starts to smell like a kitchen at the end of a long winter cooking day.
The drydown is unapologetically rich — tonka, vanilla, and amber laced with sandalwood and guaiac wood, anchored by musk. It reads warm-blooded and close, the kind of perfume that smells like body heat under a wool coat. Cold-weather only; outdoors in summer it would suffocate.
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.
