Moonstone
Moonstone opens with narcissus that feels more green stem than flower, a watery sharpness that refuses to be purely decorative.
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.
- Musky60
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Narcissus
- Gardenia
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMoonstone opens with narcissus that feels more green stem than flower, a watery sharpness that refuses to be purely decorative. The gardenia arrives soon after, but this isn't the heated, indolic gardenia of tropical nights. Sage Machado keeps it cooler, almost translucent, as if the bloom has been pressed between wax paper.
The amber and musk in the base don't warm things up so much as soften the edges. The overall effect is lunar in the truest sense: pale, remote, faintly cold. There's something deliberately restrained here, a perfume that holds back even as white florals typically push forward.
Best suited to those who want florals without the usual sweetness or heat, or anyone drawn to the idea of flowers viewed through frosted glass rather than in full sun.
Scent twins
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.




