Velvet Orchid Lumière
Velvet Orchid Lumière opens with a burst of bergamot brightness cutting through honeyed rum—less boozy than ambered and warm, like sunlight through a cocktail glass.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Woody75
- Vanilla65
- Citrus65
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Honey
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readVelvet Orchid Lumière opens with a burst of bergamot brightness cutting through honeyed rum—less boozy than ambered and warm, like sunlight through a cocktail glass. The composition quickly softens into a supple floral heart where rose and jasmine blend rather than compete, their edges smoothed by what feels like heliotrope's powdery sweetness and a whisper of saffron's leathery warmth.
The base settles into a creamy sandalwood-vanilla accord grounded by myrrh and labdanum, creating a resinous depth that keeps the sweetness from turning cloying. There's a subtle suede-like texture throughout, giving the whole fragrance a tactile quality—velvet indeed, but the diaphanous kind that catches light rather than absorbs it.
This is the amber-floral in a lighter register: warm without heaviness, sweet without excess. It suits someone drawn to Tom Ford's opulent style but seeking something more daytime-appropriate, less assertive than its predecessors in the Orchid lineage.
Scent twins
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