Rouge Velours
Rouge Velours opens with white tea — a note that reads as clean and slightly bitter, not sweet — alongside pink pepper's gentle prickling.
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.
- Rose60
- Iris60
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- White Tea
- Pink Pepper
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Rose
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readRouge Velours opens with white tea — a note that reads as clean and slightly bitter, not sweet — alongside pink pepper's gentle prickling. Together they compose a fresh but quiet introduction before the rose, jasmine, and iris heart expands. The florals are composed rather than lush: the iris keeps the rose from turning romantic and the jasmine from turning heady.
Vetiver in the base is the key structural element, contributing a smoky grassiness that tilts the whole composition toward dry territory. Patchouli and musk fill in without adding sweetness. The velvet of its name lives in the smooth floral-iris midpoint, not in any gourmand note. A polished, restrained modern floral appropriate for office or evening wear in mild weather.
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.
