The Moon
Raspberry and saffron are an unusual pairing for a Malle release: the berry sweetness registers for only a moment before the saffron's metallic density takes over, pulling the opening in a more austere, almost medicinal direction.
The scent fingerprint
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.
- Incense60
- Leather60
- Sandalwood55
- Amber55
- Patchouli45
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry and saffron are an unusual pairing for a Malle release: the berry sweetness registers for only a moment before the saffron's metallic density takes over, pulling the opening in a more austere, almost medicinal direction. Lychee adds a faint tropical shimmer at the edges without ever becoming dominant.
Olibanum and violet form the heart — ecclesiastical incense balanced against a cool, slightly powdery floral. The combination creates something genuinely unusual: smoke and flowers in equal measure, neither dominant, the incense keeping the violet from reading as soft and the violet preventing the incense from becoming oppressive.
Sandalwood, leather, amber, and patchouli provide a deep, conventional-in-the-best-sense oriental base that grounds everything above it. The Moon doesn't resolve its tensions so much as hold them in suspension.
