Velvet Gardenia
Gardenia, jasmine, lily of the valley, and orange open the composition with a wide, creamy white-floral splash, the orange brightening the edges without becoming citric.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Floral70
- Honey50
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Orange
- Gardenia
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia, jasmine, lily of the valley, and orange open the composition with a wide, creamy white-floral splash, the orange brightening the edges without becoming citric. The gardenia leads with its cool, slightly mushroom-tinged cream.
The heart turns sweeter and more tropical as tuberose joins the gardenia, jasmine, and lily of the valley, with plum lending a soft jammy fruitiness and honey threading sticky-warmth through the bouquet. The rose adds a wine-dark counterpoint. The flowers sit in indolic-honeyed tension.
The base is incense-and-resin: frankincense smoky and cool, labdanum sticky-leathery, honey persisting through the close. The overall character is a dense, animalic-honeyed white-floral with a smoky-resinous backbone — opulent, sultry, projecting strongly, and pitched for cold-weather formal or evening wear.
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.
