Balmain H M
Tonka bean lands first, its almond-coumarin facet dusting the opening with a toasted sweetness that feels almost nutty against the clean jasmine petals.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- White Floral70
- Musky60
- Sweet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Jasmine
- Gardenia
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readTonka bean lands first, its almond-coumarin facet dusting the opening with a toasted sweetness that feels almost nutty against the clean jasmine petals. Gardenia swells in the heart, amplifying the white floral volume while the tonka’s vanillic sugar steers the bloom away from indolic dirtiness and into fluffy, sunlit territory. White musk locks the composition to skin, stretching the sweet-gardenia accord into a soft, laundry-linen glow that lingers for hours. The whole structure stays linear: the opening almond facet merely dims rather than morphs, and the dry-down is a quieter echo of the first five minutes. Projection stays polite, projecting a one-foot halo for the first three hours before collapsing into a clean musk whisper. Office-safe year-round, but the creamy sweetness feels most comfortable in mild spring weather.
Scent twins
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