Ballerina
Ballerina opens with a pop of ginger that is brisk but brief.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Yellow Floral85
- Almond55
- Rose50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Ylang-Ylang
- White Musk
- Tonka Bean
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readBallerina opens with a pop of ginger that is brisk but brief. Ylang-ylang quickly takes over in the heart — intensely floral and slightly rubbery in the way ylang-ylang tends to be, softened here by an underlying peach warmth that keeps it from becoming overwhelming.
As the base emerges, tonka bean, vanilla, and amber merge into a creamy, slightly almond-sweet foundation. Iris adds a cool, powdery counterpoint that lifts the sweetness slightly. Frankincense and olibanum contribute a thin resinous thread without turning the composition incense-heavy.
The overall character is a warm, feminine floral-gourmand — approachable rather than complex, with decent longevity from the resinous base materials.
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.
