Farouche
Farouche opens with the green snap of galbanum cut by peach and bergamot — a counterintuitive combination that feels both fresh and faintly bitter, classic of mid-seventies French composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 21 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.
- Mossy80
- Floral60
- Woody55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Peach
- Peach
- Galbanum
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readFarouche opens with the green snap of galbanum cut by peach and bergamot — a counterintuitive combination that feels both fresh and faintly bitter, classic of mid-seventies French composition. Behind it the heart unfolds slowly: jasmine, rose, lily, lily of the valley, with cardamom and clary sage adding a cool aromatic spine.
The drydown is unmistakably chypre — oakmoss, sandalwood, vetiver, amber, and musk — dry and slightly austere, with the moss and woods doing most of the work.
It is a period chypre worn deliberately, recognizable as something from before the IFRA-driven reformulations changed what oakmoss could do. Layered, persistent, and best in cool weather.
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.
