Bal d'Afrique
Bal d'Afrique opens with a clean, sunny brightness — neroli threaded with pale citrus and African marigold's slightly bitter edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
- Amber30
- Vanilla25
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBal d'Afrique opens with a clean, sunny brightness — neroli threaded with pale citrus and African marigold's slightly bitter edge. The heart is dry and ceremonial: violet and jasmine petals sit under a curl of buchu, never syrupy, always measured. The base settles into its actual argument, a hushed composition of vetiver, vanilla, and Moroccan cedar that reads more pale wood than sweetness.
It wears like a white linen shirt in a dry climate — unflashy, confident, deliberately refined. A fit for people who want warmth without gourmand weight, or floral cleanliness without powder. Best in spring through early fall; too slight for true cold weather, too understated for a room that wants announcing.
Scent twins
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