Bal d'Afrique Hair Perfume
Neroli, lemon, and bergamot open with a clean, fresh citrus-floral accord — neroli providing creamy softness while lemon and bergamot add bright clarity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli, lemon, and bergamot open with a clean, fresh citrus-floral accord — neroli providing creamy softness while lemon and bergamot add bright clarity. The opening is light, transparent, and familiar.
Vetiver and musk form a spare but effective base. Vetiver's earthy, smoky quality transforms what could be a generic clean citrus into something more grounded. Musk keeps the drydown intimate and close. The simple base suits a hair fragrance format — lighter and more about diffusion than longevity.
This reads as a lighter expression of the core composition — vetiver still asserting its earthy character but in a restrained, diffused register. Best for warm-weather casual wear.
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.