Gran Ballo
The opening is a soft collision of white florals and golden sweetness—gardenia and jasmine bloom immediately, but they're already glazed with honey, rounded at the edges.
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.
- Chocolate70
- White Floral50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Honey
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Caramel
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a soft collision of white florals and golden sweetness—gardenia and jasmine bloom immediately, but they're already glazed with honey, rounded at the edges. This isn't the sharp indolic jasmine of vintage perfumery; it's been tempered, made ballroom-ready, corsage-like.
As it settles, the sweetness deepens. Caramel appears without cloying, folding into amber and vanilla to create something plush and enveloping. The sandalwood provides just enough structure to keep the composition from dissolving into pure dessert. The florals never quite disappear—they persist as pale ghosts beneath the sweetness.
Gran Ballo feels like evening wear: formal but warm, closer to silk than velvet. It suits someone comfortable with sweetness who wants florals without rawness, opulence without aggression. The name promises a grand ball, and the perfume delivers accordingly—polished, lavish, unapologetically pretty.
Scent twins
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