Ébène de Balmain Balmain 1983 Eau de Toilette
Basil and bergamot land green-sharp, quickly swallowed by a dark heart where cinnamon burns dry and patchouli pushes earthy, bitter leaves against a tight, sour rose.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather90
- Mossy80
- Cinnamon70
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Patchouli
- Rose
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and bergamot land green-sharp, quickly swallowed by a dark heart where cinnamon burns dry and patchouli pushes earthy, bitter leaves against a tight, sour rose. The base thickens into moss-caked leather, incense smoke and labdanum resin glueing the hide while amber glows quietly underneath, never sweet. Over hours the leather sheds its tar, leaving a cool, mineral frankincense halo that clings close to skin like old tweed brushed with church dust. Projection stays reserved, a low sillage circle perfect for office days or cool autumn walks when you want memory rather than announcement.
Scent twins
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.
