Folie Douce
Folie-Douce opens with a sharp citrus brightness that quickly mellows into something quieter and more disarming.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
- Iris80
- Vanilla45
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Mimosa
- Mimosa
- Ylang-Ylang
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readFolie-Douce opens with a sharp citrus brightness that quickly mellows into something quieter and more disarming. The mimosa and heliotrope create a soft, almost powdery haze that feels intimate rather than formal, more like pressing your face into clean cotton than attending a dinner party. Lemon threads through both the opening and heart, lending a persistent freshness that prevents the florals from settling into anything too heavy.
As it wears, the ylang-ylang and iris weave together into a texture that's both creamy and slightly green, grounded by sandalwood and vanilla that never quite tip into sweetness. The base is restrained—musky cedar that stays close to the skin. This is a fragrance from the late nineties that doesn't announce itself, suited to someone who prefers subtlety and finds comfort in uncomplicated warmth.
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.