Dries Van Noten · 2022 · Marie Salamagne

Soie Malaquais

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

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

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Soie Malaquais’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, blackcurrant, rose, chestnut, cacao, vanilla 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

Dry-downwhat stays

Soie Malaquais, dry-down: Chestnut, Cacao, Vanilla, Coumarin (tonka)

What’s inside it

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

5 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

L'Aventure GoldAl Haramain · shares bergamot, blackcurrant (cassis), rose and vanilla$190.48 for 100 ml · about half of Soie Malaquais’s about $370
Club de Nuit Intense ManArmaf · shares bergamot, blackcurrant (cassis), rose and vanilla$50 for 105 ml · about a tenth of Soie Malaquais’s about $370
Amber WoodAjmal · shares bergamot, blackcurrant (cassis), rose and vanilla$169 for 100 ml · about half of Soie Malaquais’s about $370

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.