Rose Velours Van Cleef & Arpels
Violet leaf and bergamot open with a green, slightly citrus freshness — violet leaf contributing its cool, faintly watery green quality, bergamot providing the citrus lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Rose60
- Honey50
- Iris50
- Amber40
- Iris Powder40
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf and bergamot open with a green, slightly citrus freshness — violet leaf contributing its cool, faintly watery green quality, bergamot providing the citrus lift. It's a clean, restrained opening that sets a sophisticated tone without giving too much away.
Honey, iris, and rose form an unusual heart triangle. The honey provides warmth and sweetness with a slightly animalic quality; iris adds powdery, orris-root coolness; rose supplies the classical floral foundation. The honey-iris pairing is particularly effective: the heat of one against the coolness of the other creating productive tension.
Ambroxan, benzoin, and cedar build a modern, clean-warm base. Ambroxan provides characteristic skin-like warmth; benzoin adds resinous sweetness; cedar gives structural precision. A quietly excellent rose composition from a jewellery house that earns its fragrance credibility.
