Velvet Haze Byredo 2017

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A perfume by Byredo for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is creamy-sweet. It is being marketed by Manzanita Capital.
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Main accords

Creamy

Sweet

Powdery

Spicy

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Coconut water

Ambrette

Heart Notes

Patchouli

Base Notes

Musk

Cocoa absolute

Ratings

Scent

7.0285 Ratings

Longevity

7.2237 Ratings

Sillage

6.8234 Ratings

Bottle

7.7222 Ratings

Value for money

5.987 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 07/06/2025.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/30/2017

6
Bottle 5
Sillage 8
Longevity 5.5
Scent

StellaDiverF
213 Reviews

StellaDiverF

Very helpful Review 5

Hot milk and For Her musk

I didn't get much typical coconut in Byredo Velvet Haze, at least not anything cloyingly plastic like some coconut-flavoured products can be. Instead, it's creamy, warmly sweet, slightly honeyed and animalic, evoking a bowl of hot milk to me during the first 20 minutes.

Then, something vaguely inky and metallic, yet still somewhat velvety, starts to infuse the hot milk and cools it down. It felt familiar, but I wasn't able to name it until 1 hour later, when it firmly dominates and the sweet milk becomes merely a facet of it: a clean, vegetal white musk, halfway between the musty one in Byredo Blanche and the brighter, more floral one in Narciso Rodriguez for Her EDT. The main difference being the addition of the sweet milkiness, Velvet Haze feels kind of like a semi-gourmand variation on the clean white musk theme.

From then on, Velvet Haze doesn't change much anymore. Sometimes, I can smell a bit of coconut milk within the mix, but it's mostly just abstract velvety milky sweetness among the inky white musk. I don't detect any distinct bitterness of cacao or patchouli on my skin, although the spikiness of the later was detectable during the middle phase on the paper.

I get a medium sillage during the first 3 hours, and it stays close to the skin for another 6 hours.

Without digging into any musical or cultural background, the name itself actually summarizes well how Velvet Haze smells to me: a velvety, hazy white cloud of clean inky musk with a subtle creamy sweetness, which fits well into the abstract, modern artificial style of Byredo fragrances that I tried so far. I would recommend it to those who enjoy clean, abstract fragrances, especially to those who'd like a warmer, more creamy version of Byredo Blanche or Narciso Rodriguez for Her EDT.

06/17/2023

7
Sillage 6
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Ostara
61 Reviews

Ostara

4

Lactonic Egyptian Musk

Velvet Haze is indeed an Egyptian musk fragrance. Sure there's a strong resemblance to the NR line, but the same would be said about literally any Egyptian musk fragrance nowadays. Velvet Haze is not a dupe by any means.

The opening is unpleasant to my nose. I don't love the way the lactones were executed here as they don't fit smoothly into the composition and that's usually what they are supposed to do. Instead I find that there is an odd juxtaposition between a bitter dirt accord, and a strangely milky overripe fruit accord. This unsettling push-pull character lasts for the first half hour of wear and then slowly fades as the Egyptian musk accord comes to the forefront: it's all lived in musk and tamed patchouli. I like the dry down very much for it's familiarity rather than for any compositional innovation.

Aside from the opening, Velvet Haze is easy to wear and easy to love. It's probably a big seller for Byredo. However for my personal preferences, I strongly prefer the composition of NR for Her as it's more overtly femme while Velvet Haze is solidly unisex and monolithically musky.

10/31/2017

10
Bottle 7
Sillage 6
Longevity 10
Scent

Violet0308
1 Review

Violet0308

Helpful Review 2

Milky creamy patchouli

I liked this perfume the instant I smelled it , it's warm, inviting and natural in a way like a skin scent. I smell a lot of musk and patchoui but in a very muted ,velvety , hazy, creamy way , as the name suggests. It might be somewhat odd for some in the first 5 minutes but then warms up into a sweet creamy haze. Let coconut not worry you if you don't like it. I would say it's more milky , like the sweet smell of real coconut milk ,not like the strong odor of simulated coconut suntan products .
I am in love with this perfume and will definitely re purchase when I get lower. One of Byredos best !

02/04/2019

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Leimbacher
489 Reviews

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Leimbacher

Top Review 21

Too much musk in the lungs for too few trumpets

A coconut water? Or quite clearly a musk magnet? A female patchouli pirate at all? What's "Velvet Haze" now???

A little of everything. "Velvet Haze" is a hypermodern hippie. The colour purple is spreading in my head, of course it is velvety too. The great art of dying. A circular saw made of hugs. A cocoa finish cuddles just like the creamy patchouli in combination with fluffy human musk. And above everything vibrates light, summery coconut water. Although the fragrance fits rather into the two darker seasons. Fascinating and fine. Fine through and through. Oldschool all-rounder in a new guise. Or without a robe. Old wine from new bottles. Or directly from the source.

Flacon: couldn't you have built in some purple accents here?!
Sillage: solid, gentle, on Zack
Shelf life: 7 hours sensual coconut veil or patchouliprosa

Conclusion: purple shimmering coconut water for festivals and other caresses - elegant, sensual, cosmopolitan. Cool fragrance, especially for patchoulians.

05/22/2021

4
Pricing 6
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Pinkdawn
67 Reviews

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Pinkdawn

Top Review 12

In the wrong scent?

Some scents you spray on and immediately feel "at home", even if it is an oriental or an incense. Others remain neutral or take you to a distant land where you like to visit from time to time. Difficult it is with the perfumes, which seem above all "foreign" and trigger in you the feeling to be in the wrong movie - er - fragrance.

Yet the name appealed to me so much. Velvet Haze - yes, maybe that's a little cheesy, but it also stirs up expectations because it sounds mysterious, as it always does when it comes to mist. Wasn't the mythical island of Avalon always shrouded in mist?
Velvet Haze starts off a bit cool-tart on the top notes, but turns sweet and very creamy in no time. To me, the fragrance also seems floral. Where the flowers come from is unclear to me. Because not a single one is to be found in the fragrance pyramid. So it must be ambrette and coconut water. More like ambrette. Because this is dominated by a certain pungency with - sorry - echoes of certain synthetic moth remedies.

Coconut? I remember times when just about everything that could smell smelled like coconut: perfumes, shampoos, creams, fabric softeners, lipsticks. However, at the time, it was a distinctly tropical coconut scent that conveyed a feeling of vacationing in the South Seas, palm trees, white sandy beaches and turquoise blue seas. I admit, I was expecting something similar, in a modern reimagining of course. Since the coconut fragrance fashion has long died down and I have also already experienced too much coconut in fragrances, I would hardly have voluntarily reached for an EdP, which wants to score with it.

Meanwhile, however, it seems to be the trend that perfumes exactly do not smell like the roses or other ingredients that they supposedly contain. Perhaps one wants to surprise deliberately, to mislead, to serve no conventional expectations. That is laudable, after all. Times are changing. And so do rose and coconut fragrances.

I only find it disappointing when rose is listed and you don't notice anything about it. I feel the same way about the coconut here. I perceive nothing of the kind.

There's something irritatingly sweet that reminds me of strawflowers. Calluna, for instance. I never managed to visit the Lüneburg Heath without taking a heather basket with me. I wonder if they still have them today From the heath it is only a small associative step to an old folk song. It is already dark on the heath, home let us go ...

The evening mood on the heath already hits the soul of the fragrance more than tropical islands, palm trees and South Sea noise.

I wait for the patchouli, which is usually not easy to smell over. But the evening puts a cloth on the land - and everything disappears in a diffuse fragrance creamy mist, from which I perceive only ambergris and musk. Soft, gentle, velvety, powdery and of dry sweetness. The fragrance mist is subtle, elegant and feminine. It's almost all too delicate and becomes increasingly so. Who interprets this as weakening durability, is on the right track.

After coconut and patchouli left out, only cocoa absolute could bring some color into play. It would undoubtedly have the potential to make Velvet Haze something special after all. But the cocoa sensation with the expected gourmand dark bittersweetness unfortunately also holds back. The fragrance remains pale. No excesses, no passion, not even sensuality disturbs the evening peace everywhere. This is another concept I let myself be talked into. I love the quiet evening atmosphere, when the sun sets and dusk falls, the colors become softer, the day quieter. But if you want to achieve that effect, it has to be more explicit - and not just because of the fog in the name. I've never liked movies where the ending is left open. Will they get it now? Will they fall? Will their lives get meaning after all when their son finally returns? Will he survive the cancer? Will she get custody? No answer. You'd better come up with your own! That's how easy it is to be a writer or a filmmaker. The visual arts, of course, have a harder time of it ...

A little iso-star sparkle would have already helped to deepen the evening mood. Or if the patchouli would have risen nice velvety-dark.
But no. Didn't want to, or couldn't? The intention may have been there. But with the implementation of the mood transfer it hapert. In other words, the fragrance is not balanced according to my nose. It has hardly any stability. Well, fog just ...

Whether the musk in the base can still "deliver"? For this, however, it would have to come along more animalic. However, it does not. It is a thoroughly tame white Musk as from the drugstore. Nothing provocative, nothing exciting.

I am not convinced by the fragrance. I like Velvet Haze best still in the initial phase, when you realize with surprise that it is far less gourmandig than you imagined with coconut and cocoa. But that's too little.

What remains is a soft musky amber or ambrette scent with a warm spicy drydown. For me, it is an all in all yet quite conventional fragrance with a certain retro touch, which is probably owed to the quiet patchouli.

Who the fragrance is too synthetic-sweet, need not fear: The durability is low.

Velvet Haze is the first perfume from Byredo that I tested. The niche fragrance house, which also has exclusive scented candles, soaps and other nourishing cosmetics in its portfolio, was founded by Ben Gorham in Stockholm in 2006. Instead of Scandinavian minimalism, Gorham deliberately reflects on his Indian origins. Sounds exciting, but maybe that's where my "foreign" feeling comes from. I will certainly test more Byredos, but not as a blind buy. To me, the fragrances, which usually cost so € 190, - (100 ml), but too expensive.

(With thanks to NatRocks)

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