Vent Vert Balmain 1947 Eau de Toilette
Galbanum slashes open with a vivid green blade that snaps peach and gardenia into crisp focus, the lemon only sharpening the edge.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Green90
- Mossy70
- Floral60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Peach
- Lemon
- Galbanum
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes open with a vivid green blade that snaps peach and gardenia into crisp focus, the lemon only sharpening the edge. Jasmine and rose bloom quickly but stay cool, their petals dusted by iris powder while lily-of-the-valley keeps the corridor brightly lit. Oakmoss moss creeps in early, stitching the flowers to vetiver's rooty smoke and letting styrax's leathery resin darken the edges without ever thickening the air. The dry-down stays angular: vetiver and oakmoss continue their green duet, musk adding clean skin rather than weight, so the scent feels like pressed linen long after the top has vanished. Projection radiates a polite arm's length for six hours, perfect for office days that spill into evening trains.
Scent twins
In this family
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