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Frédéric Malle · Est. 2014

Eau De Magnolia

Eau de Magnolia opens with a bright citrus wash of lemon and grapefruit — clean and brisk, more garden-morning than perfume counter — before the magnolia heart arrives with its characteristic cream-and-green quality.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2014
Statusenriched
Eau De Magnolia — Frédéric Malle
2014 · Fragrance
ber·vet·lem·oak
Rating
4.0
1.4k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 11 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.

  • Bergamot
    60
  • Vetiver
    50
  • Lemon
    50
  • Oakmoss
    50
  • Cedar
    40

By the editors · 2 min readEau de Magnolia opens with a bright citrus wash of lemon and grapefruit — clean and brisk, more garden-morning than perfume counter — before the magnolia heart arrives with its characteristic cream-and-green quality. This is not a soliflore; the magnolia here is grounded by vetiver's earthy smokiness and patchouli's dark earth, making it feel substantial rather than merely pretty.

Moss, amber, and cedar in the base give the drydown a quiet, slightly damp woodiness that lingers on skin. Carlos Benaim's construction reads as deliberately casual for a Malle fragrance — the kind of sophisticated scent that earns attention by not demanding it.

Filed: Frédéric MalleSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap