Balmya de Balmain
Violet leaf and pink pepper open green-peppery against bergamot, giving the first minutes a slightly dewy, slightly stinging quality.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
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The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Vanilla
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf and pink pepper open green-peppery against bergamot, giving the first minutes a slightly dewy, slightly stinging quality. The combination reads more textural than fruity.
The heart pivots unexpectedly: jasmine softens the green opening into a floral middle, while vanilla and coffee bring a roasted-sweet undertow. Coffee here reads as bitter-aromatic rather than dessert, balancing the vanilla's roundness.
Sandalwood in the base lends a creamy wood drydown—simple but coherent with the coffee-vanilla pairing above. Overall the arc moves from bright-green to roasted-sweet-creamy, with the coffee accord giving it a distinctive signature. Cool-weather appropriate, projection moderate at first then intimate. Suited to evening or relaxed date wear.
Scent twins
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