Ivoire Ivoire de Balmain Balmain 1980 Eau de Toilette
Lemon and bergamot open with a bright citrus layer underlaid immediately by violet's cool, powdery presence.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Mossy90
- Floral70
- Soft Spicy60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Cinnamon
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a bright citrus layer underlaid immediately by violet's cool, powdery presence. The top reads sharp but not harsh — classical in its structure.
The heart is dense: cinnamon and nutmeg add warm spice to jasmine, ylang-ylang, and lily of the valley, while narcissus contributes a green, slightly animalic floralcy. This spice-floral interplay is the fragrance's most complex passage, where individual notes are difficult to separate.
The base brings oakmoss, sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli, and frankincense together into an earthy, resinous chypre foundation. Tonka and vanilla soften the mossy austerity just enough. The overall character is structured, green-floral, and decidedly old-school.
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.
