Hussar Ballad Гусарская Баллада
Honey drips thick and golden over cured tobacco leaf, the opening accord sweet, slightly animalic, and immediately resinous.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Balsamic60
- Honey50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Honey
- Tobacco
- Labdanum
- Benzoin
- Osmanthus
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readHoney drips thick and golden over cured tobacco leaf, the opening accord sweet, slightly animalic, and immediately resinous. Within minutes labdanum and benzoin melt into the honey, creating a warm, incense-tinged amber that feels like liquid caramel, while osmanthus contributes a faintly leathery apricot nuance and a soft, airy rose keeps the heart from turning syrupy. Vanilla and patchouli arrive early in the dry-down, the vanilla rounding edges, the patchouli adding cocoa-brown earth that steadies the saccharide glow and prevents cloying sweetness. A veil of clean musk lifts the composition in the final hours, leaving skin scented with tobacco-laced amber that projects at arm’s length for most of the wearing. Expect 7–9 hour longevity and a cozy, fireside sillage best suited to cool autumn evenings or layered winter days when you want smoke without rough edges.
Scent twins
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