Balenciaga Pour Homme
Balenciaga Pour Homme occupies a precise moment in masculine perfumery: the early 1990s, when chypre structures still led and market simplification hadn't taken hold.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Powdery50
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Thyme
- Cardamom
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBalenciaga Pour Homme occupies a precise moment in masculine perfumery: the early 1990s, when chypre structures still led and market simplification hadn't taken hold. The opening delivers galbanum alongside bergamot, cinnamon, cardamom, and thyme — the galbanum's green-resinous bitterness unusual in a masculine context, cutting through the warmer spice notes with an austere sharpness. The heart strips away all florals: sandalwood, cedar, and patchouli alone, an earthy-woody triad that reads almost architectural. Oakmoss, labdanum, honey, vanilla, and musk build the dry-down into the warmest register — the honey a distinctive note in the base, adding organic sweetness beneath the chypre structure. Dense, unhurried, built for cold weather.
Scent twins
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