Le Vestiaire - Velours
Black tea and dual peppers — pink and black — open with a dry, slightly bitter freshness that reads immediately unisex.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Vanilla55
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Black Tea
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Jasmine
- Frankincense
- Iris
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readBlack tea and dual peppers — pink and black — open with a dry, slightly bitter freshness that reads immediately unisex. The tea is genuine rather than decorative, providing a tannin-edged quality that gives the opening structure without sharpness. Iris and frankincense arrive in the heart with powdery warmth cut by resinous smoke.
The base turns progressively softer: vanilla rounds out the frankincense trail, amberwood adds quiet warmth, and musk settles everything into a skin-close finish. Velours is the most approachable of Le Vestiaire's 2016 dark trio — less austere than Cuir, less smoky than Vinyle. The suede-and-vanilla quality in the drydown earns the name.
Scent twins
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