The Moon
The fourth Middle Eastern-themed release in the Frédéric Malle Desert Gems series, The Moon by Julien Rasquinet operates in the register of nocturnal excess.
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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.
- Smoky70
- Cherry70
- Oud65
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Strawberry
- Saffron
- Blackberry
- Lychee
- Red Currant
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readThe fourth Middle Eastern-themed release in the Frédéric Malle Desert Gems series, The Moon by Julien Rasquinet operates in the register of nocturnal excess. The opening is all berried fruit — raspberry, lychee, blackberry, strawberry, saffron — giving the composition a boozy, macerated quality that reads almost like a liqueur before it dries down. Turkish rose and olibanum carry the heart, the frankincense smoke underpinning the rose in a way that roots it firmly in the Oriental tradition rather than the European one.
The base is substantial: oud, leather, patchouli, amber, cypriol, sandalwood, and cedar — a full register that projects generously and wears for hours. The Moon is not for the faint-hearted. It asks for commitment to big, dark, resinous orientals and rewards it with staying power and depth that few fragrances at any price can match.
Scent twins
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