Balmain

Destin de Balmain

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor women

From lightest to strongest

Juicy strawberry over a creamy, tropical champaca flower, drying down to smooth sandalwood with a little patchouli.

Press one to keep this perfume on your shelf.

The drawn Destin de Balmain bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Destin de Balmain’s scent picture, a draft: strawberry, champaca, sandalwood, patchouli, iso e super (pencil shavings on velvet), coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Destin de Balmain, when you spray it: Strawberry, Limonene (orange peel), Pinene (pine needles)

As it settlesheart notes

Destin de Balmain, as it settles: Champaca

What staysdry-down notes

Destin de Balmain, what stays: Sandalwood, Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

12 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus2 herbs & lavender2 florals4 woods1 sweet1 spices1 powder

9 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

EuphoriaCalvin Klein · shares champaca$123 for 100 ml
Molecule 01 + ChampacaEscentric Molecules · shares champaca$185 for 100 ml · about the same as Destin de Balmain’s $182
DaisyMarc Jacobs · shares strawberry and sandalwood$146 for 100 ml · about the same as Destin de Balmain’s $182
More from Balmain2 more perfumes

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.