Balsam Fir
Apple, peach, and lemon open in a juicy fruit-citrus chord.
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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.
- Fruity60
- Violet55
- Sweet45
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Peach
- Lemon
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readApple, peach, and lemon open in a juicy fruit-citrus chord. Apple brings crisp green-fruit freshness; peach adds fuzzy lactonic warmth; lemon sharpens the seam with a clean peel. The opening reads bright and uncomplicated, more casual than polished.
Violet carries the brief heart alone. The flower lands powdery and slightly candied, with a lipstick-purple sweetness that bridges the fruit into the base. Without other florals to balance it, the middle feels minimalist and a little flat.
Sandalwood and musk anchor a clean, soft base. Sandalwood adds pale creamy wood; musk provides the laundry-soft finish. Despite the balsam-fir name, no coniferous notes appear — the structure reads as a generic fruity-floral musk rather than a forest scent.
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.