V E
V'E is one of the last great floral-chypre statements before regulation gutted the category.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Rose50
- Iris35
- Amber30
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- African Orange Flower
- Green Notes
- Bergamot
- Amalfi Lemon
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readV'E is one of the last great floral-chypre statements before regulation gutted the category. Aldehydes and green notes lift the opening — soapy, crystalline — over African orange flower, bergamot, and Amalfi lemon. It feels lit from within.
The heart unfolds slowly: narcissus, rose, ylang-ylang, jasmine, and orris over cyclamen and lily-of-the-valley — a full bouquet rather than a single flower. Underneath, the chypre architecture: oakmoss, Virginia cedar, sandalwood, amber, and heliotrope.
Worn today it reads almost archaeologically — a finished sentence in a language the industry has stopped speaking. Discontinued; bottles still surface on resale and remain worth tracking down.
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.