Sleek Suede
Sleek Suede opens with a complex spice cluster — cacao pod, pepper, cloves, and nutmeg over incense — that is richer and more enveloping than its name suggests.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Chocolate70
- Tobacco60
- Balsamic60
- Oud
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Pepper
- Cloves
- Cacao Pod
- Nutmeg
- Cedar
- Agarwood (Oud)
By the editors · 2 min readSleek Suede opens with a complex spice cluster — cacao pod, pepper, cloves, and nutmeg over incense — that is richer and more enveloping than its name suggests. The cacao is not sweet here; it reads as roasted darkness, reinforcing the resinous quality of the incense rather than pulling toward gourmand territory.
Oud and cedar in the heart are the load-bearing notes: the oud is dry and woody, the cedar clean and structural. The base extends everything into a long drydown of tobacco, labdanum, and vanilla over patchouli — the classic oriental architecture that YSL's Vestiaire Oriental Collection was designed around. Assertive, layered, and long-lasting; it projects firmly and rewards patience.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
