Yellow Velvet 2021
Peach up top is generous — ripe, juicy, just shy of jammy — and dominates the opening before any floral note can register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Vanilla70
- Fruity70
- Lactonic50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Peach
- Orchid
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readPeach up top is generous — ripe, juicy, just shy of jammy — and dominates the opening before any floral note can register. When orchid does arrive in the heart, it reads more abstract than botanical: a soft, slightly creamy bridge rather than a defined flower, doing the work of rounding the fruit's edges.
The vanilla base finishes the gourmand thought. It's the marshmallow kind, not the boozy kind, and gives the whole composition a powdered, cake-frosting feel by the time the dry-down settles. A floral-fruity-gourmand built for warm-weather casual wear, sweet enough to skew young; not the perfume to wear when you want to be taken seriously in the room.
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.
