Ocean of a Midnight Moon
Ocean of a Midnight Moon opens with a bright citrus cluster — lemon, grapefruit, bergamot, and petitgrain — that is clean and slightly bitter rather than sweet.
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.
- Citrus80
- Fresh70
- Aquatic70
- Marine
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Mint
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readOcean of a Midnight Moon opens with a bright citrus cluster — lemon, grapefruit, bergamot, and petitgrain — that is clean and slightly bitter rather than sweet. Mint threads through this opening, keeping it cool and adding a slight aromatic edge that prevents the citrus from reading as simple cologne.
The marine note arrives to anchor the composition, lending a watery, saline depth. Suede in the base introduces an unexpected softness, giving the aquatic a slight warmth and texture that distinguishes it from straightforward oceanic fragrances.
The overall effect is a cool, aquatic citrus with genuine structure: the suede provides enough body to carry the scent beyond its initial freshness into something with a bit more character and staying power.
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.
