Moon Fever
Memo Paris builds fragrances around travel destinations, and Moon Fever conjures the desert at night — spare, dry, and unexpectedly expansive.
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.
- Leather55
- Aromatic50
- Sweet50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Neroli
- Clary Sage
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readMemo Paris builds fragrances around travel destinations, and Moon Fever conjures the desert at night — spare, dry, and unexpectedly expansive. Lemon and grapefruit open cleanly, bright and slightly tart, before neroli takes over as the transitional note: it carries both the citrus lineage and a honeyed, slightly floral quality that bridges the opening toward the heart. Clary sage introduces a herbal, slightly musky dimension — not aggressively green, but dry and contemplative — and the composition settles into something quieter and more considered than its citrus opening would suggest.
The base is the reward for patience: tonka bean brings a warm coumarin sweetness without tipping gourmand; vetiver provides earthy backbone; leather — clean, suede-like rather than animalic — lends quiet authority to the dry-down. Moon Fever is an understated, sophisticated unisex fragrance that suits those who prefer their fragrances to whisper. It works well in cooler weather when the citrus-herbal opening registers as crisp rather than thin.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
