Miss Balmain
Miss Balmain opens with a bright flash of lemon cutting through creamy gardenia, setting up a tension between citrus clarity and white floral richness.
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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Lemon
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Narcissus
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readMiss Balmain opens with a bright flash of lemon cutting through creamy gardenia, setting up a tension between citrus clarity and white floral richness. The heart unfolds into classic French florals—jasmine and rose grounded by lily of the valley's green coolness and narcissus's slightly narcotic sweetness. This is vintage white floral territory, lush but never cloying, shaped by the restraint of its era.
The base reveals the perfume's real architecture: oakmoss and patchouli provide chypre structure, while coconut and tonka add an unusual creamy sweetness that feels almost suntan-oil nostalgic. Leather and vetiver keep it from turning too soft, and amber warms the whole composition without drowning it. The overall effect is a white floral chypre with tropical undertones, polished and feminine in the way late-sixties French perfumery understood the term.
A scent for someone who appreciates the craft of older perfumes—complex, unapologetically floral, built to last on skin.
Scent twins
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