Frederic Malle En Passant

You can buy the genuine Frederic Malle En Passant straight from FragranceNet.com. The real bottle comes first; the accessible alternatives below are there if you'd rather spend less.

Frederic Malle En Passant opens with Cucumber; drying down to Musk, from notes Nordstrom (Frederic Malle) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, musky, the coarse families Nordstrom (Frederic Malle) cites. How it wears depends on your skin and the concentration. We only publish notes and accords we can trace to a source.

The genuine Frederic Malle En Passant runs $262.49 at FragranceNet.com as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them.

We rank the "smells-like" alternatives to En Passant by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke En Passant, not match its formula, and we say as much. If we can't verify a genuine match yet, we leave it off.

Frederic Malle En Passant is listed as a women's fragrance by the retailer. That's a marketing label, not a rule: fragrance has no gender, and plenty of "women's" scents are worn by anyone. We show how it's sold and leave the wearing to you.

Creed Erolfa (shares Cucumber, Musk); Bond No. 9 Wall Street (shares Cucumber, Musk). These share specific notes with En Passant, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of En Passant's cited notes they actually share, weighting rarer notes heavier than ubiquitous ones. Each is its own fragrance with real, sourced notes, not a copy of En Passant, and has its own page.

En Passant reads as citrus, musky. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Xerjoff 1861 Renaissance, Carolina Herrera 212 and Carolina Herrera 212 VIP nearby. We rank them by how many of En Passant's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of En Passant, and each has its own page.