Gleam Of The Moon (Into The Gourmand)
Gleam of the Moon distills a gourmand accord into three ingredients and stops there.
The scent fingerprint
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.
- Vanilla65
- Yellow Floral50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Rice
- Mimosa
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGleam of the Moon distills a gourmand accord into three ingredients and stops there. Rice provides a milky, starchy opening that is neither sweet nor harsh — it occupies a translucent, almost weightless space — while mimosa adds a yellow-floral dustiness that prevents the composition from reading as purely edible. Vanilla in the base softens everything into a skin-close warmth.
At this level of simplicity, projection is not the goal. This is a fragrance that works at close range, for evenings or moments of intentional softness. The rice note is the distinctive element: not common in commercial fragrances, it gives this Zara release a quiet character it wouldn't have with a more expected floral accord.
A niche-adjacent choice at a mass-market price point — best appreciated by those who prefer subtlety.
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.
