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Frédéric Malle · Est. 2007

Outrageous

The opening is both cooling and warming at once—mint and citrus clash deliberately with a hot, aggressive cinnamon that refuses to behave.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2007
Statusenriched
Outrageous — Frédéric Malle
2007 · Fragrance
cin·ced·mus·ora
Rating
3.8
0.7k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 8 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.

  • Cinnamon
    35
  • Cedar
    25
  • Musk
    25
  • Orange
    20
  • Bergamot
    15

By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is both cooling and warming at once—mint and citrus clash deliberately with a hot, aggressive cinnamon that refuses to behave. It's jarring in the way a neon sign is jarring, designed to provoke rather than seduce. The combination shouldn't work, yet the tension itself becomes the point.

As the spice settles, neroli and orange blossom emerge with surprising softness, their honeyed florals providing ballast against the cinnamon's bite. The mint fades but leaves a ghost of coolness behind. What develops is less aggressive than the opening suggests, though never quite polite.

The base anchors everything in clean musk and cedar with a whisper of amber warmth. Outrageous lives up to its name in concept more than execution—it's assertive and unconventional, built for someone who wants their presence announced before they enter a room. Best suited to cold weather and confident personalities who treat fragrance as statement rather than background.

Filed: Frédéric MalleSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap