Folie Rouge
Bergamot opens with clean citrus brightness that fades quickly, giving way to the true subject of this fragrance: a soft, powdery violet over orange blossom.
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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- Rice Powder
- Violet
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with clean citrus brightness that fades quickly, giving way to the true subject of this fragrance: a soft, powdery violet over orange blossom. The heart is gentle — the violet is not sharp or synthetic but floated on a rice powder base that gives the whole composition a matte, almost cosmetic texture.
Patchouli underneath prevents the powderiness from becoming too gauzy, lending a faint earthiness that keeps things grounded. Tonka bean and white musk close things out in a warm, skin-close finish that leans more intimate than projecting. The overall character is unhurried and quiet — a powdery floral with just enough structure from patchouli to avoid feeling insubstantial.
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.
