Dolce & Gabbana · 2024 · Aurélien Guichard

Velvet Zafferano

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Saffron and tobacco leaf over earthy patchouli, settling into sweet vanilla and resinous cistus.

Dolce & Gabbana says

You’ll smell saffron, tobacco leaf, patchouli, vanilla and labdanum (cistus).

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Velvet Zafferano’s scent picture, a draft: saffron, tobacco, patchouli, vanilla, labdanum, coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Dry-downwhat stays

Velvet Zafferano, dry-down: Saffron, Tobacco, Patchouli, Vanilla, Labdanum, Coumarin (new-mown hay), Farnesol (linden blossom)

What’s inside it

What the label names

6 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender1 florals1 sweet2 spices

9 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell9

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoateYellow 6Ext. violet 2Red 4Red 33Diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

AsadLattafa · shares tobacco, patchouli, vanilla and cistus$44.99 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Velvet Zafferano’s $345
Spicebomb ExtremeViktor&Rolf · shares saffron, tobacco, vanilla and cistus$155 for 90 ml · about half of Velvet Zafferano’s $345
Overture 41Amouage · shares saffron, patchouli, vanilla and cistus$550 for 100 ml
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