Cœur Fou
Basil opens green and aromatic, a herbal-leafy lift before the rose takes over.
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.
- Mossy60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Bulgarian Rose
- Damask Rose
- Moss
- Bergamot
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens green and aromatic, a herbal-leafy lift before the rose takes over. The basil is short-lived but does important work — it sets the rose against a slightly bitter, savory backdrop rather than letting it open syrupy.
Bulgarian rose and damask rose share the heart, a doubled-up rose accord that reads jammy and slightly waxy, with a thorny edge from the basil thread continuing underneath. There's no fruit or spice to soften it; it's rose-forward.
Moss alone forms the listed base, lending an earthy, slightly green-mineral floor — a chypre architecture stripped to its essentials. Overall character: a green-herbal rose over damp moss, austere and slightly old-fashioned. Sits close after the first hour.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
