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En Passant(2000)
Frederic Malle · Olivia Giacobetti · Floral
At a glance
Created by Olivia Giacobetti for Frederic Malle's Editions de Parfums, En Passant opens on cucumber, moves through a heart of lilac and wheat, and closes on white musk. Its unusual, deliberately fleeting structure aims to capture the momentary, half-noticed scent of lilac blossoms drifting past on a spring walk, a conceptual approach characteristic of Giacobetti's minimalist, atmospheric style and Malle's publishing-house model of individually credited perfumer projects.
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This scent's musk note is almost certainly synthetic — discovered by accident in 1888 while researching explosives.
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