Very Valentino
Very Valentino opens with a brisk citrus-herbal fanfare—tarragon and bergamot cut through magnolia and lily of the valley, lending what could be a soft floral an unexpected green bite.
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.
- Citrus70
- Woody60
- Floral60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Magnolia
- Lily of the Valley
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readVery Valentino opens with a brisk citrus-herbal fanfare—tarragon and bergamot cut through magnolia and lily of the valley, lending what could be a soft floral an unexpected green bite. The effect feels less like a garden and more like a sun-drenched Italian terrace where herbs and flowers grow side by side, casual and unforced.
As it settles, jasmine and rose emerge alongside rosemary, keeping the composition tethered to something aromatic rather than overtly romantic. The violet adds a powdery softness without tipping into nostalgia. The base is warm but restrained—sandalwood and amber provide structure, vanilla and musk a gentle finish that never dominates.
This is a floral for someone who finds most florals too sweet or too literal. It suits daylight better than evening, linen rather than silk, and wears with an ease that never announces itself.
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.
