Dries Van Noten · 2022 · Marie Salamagne

Soie Malaquais

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5
Dries Van Noten asks about $370 for 100 ml
100 mlabout $370

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Bergamot and blackcurrant over rose and a smooth, silky accord, settling onto balsamic chestnut and cocoa.

Dries Van Noten says

You’ll smell bergamot, blackcurrant, rose, silk, chestnut and cocoa.

More from Dries Van Noten’s description

It also mentions Silk accord and Vanilla.

The house’s page

The drawn Soie Malaquais bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Soie Malaquais’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, blackcurrant, rose, silk, chestnut, cacao drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Soie Malaquais, top notes: Bergamot, Blackcurrant

Heartas it settles

Soie Malaquais, heart: Rose, Silk, Cinnamal (cinnamon)

Dry-downwhat stays

Soie Malaquais, dry-down: Chestnut, Cacao, Vanilla, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Dries Van Noten names

BergamotBlackcurrantRoseSilkChestnutCocoaVanilla

What the label names

11 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender3 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins3 spices

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals3

Geraniol (rose)Hexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Citronellol

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Amber & resins1

Benzyl cinnamate

Spices3

EugenolCinnamal (cinnamon)Isoeugenol
5 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell5

AlcoholWaterAvobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoateBenzyl alcohol

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

EmpressaPenhaligon's · shares bergamot, blackcurrant (cassis), rose, cacao and 1 more$290 for 100 ml
Replica Springtime in a ParkMaison Margiela · shares bergamot, blackcurrant (cassis), rose and vanilla$170 for 100 ml · about half of Soie Malaquais’s about $370
L'Aventure GoldAl Haramain · shares bergamot, blackcurrant (cassis), rose and vanilla$54.42 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Soie Malaquais’s about $370
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.