En Passant
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En Passant(2000)

Frederic Malle · Olivia Giacobetti · Floral

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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.

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Launched
2000
Family
Floral

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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Top notes
Cucumber
Heart notes
LilacWheat
Base notes
White Musk
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● drafted · last checked 2026-07-16