Welcome to Robb Recommends, a regular series in which our editors and contributors endorse something they’ve tried and loved—and think will change your life for the better.

As intriguing as Sage & Salt’s moon-inspired fragrances are in their own right, it’s their hefty, striking bottles that elevate them to cult favorites.

If you’re hearing about the brand for the first time, it offers great scents alongside beautiful, eye-catching amulets and crystals. Luxury woo woo, in the best way. As a result, Sage & Salt treats its bottles as a way to shift your mood and intention, not merely to smell great all day long. Each of its perfumes is conceived by founder Corbin Chamberlin and perfumer Sarah Horowitz-Thran, but the duo designed to be worn during different lunar cycles has captured a growing fan base—and for good reason.

Top Notes: green fig, tomato leaf, lemon, saffron
Middle Notes: stargazer lily, orange blossom, jasmine sambac
Base Notes: nag champa, sandalwood, vanilla orchid, tobacco leaf

Moon Ring is the more contemplative and magnetic of the two. (For me, its fig-tomato leaf intro creates a beautiful olfactive halo.) There’s a sense of orbit and return, like a familiar ritual. Wear it to keep your mind steady.

Top Notes: bergamot, pink pepper, cardamom, juniper berry
Middle Notes: Bulgarian rose, hinoki
Base Notes: amber, palo santo, oud, tobacco leaf, sandalwood, Brazilian vetiver

Luna Absolute offers a grounding sense of clarity. It feels like stepping into a calm night and letting your breath slow. The mood encourages release, quiet intention, and a confident shift into whatever comes next.

I reached out to Chamberlin to get some details on the beautiful, hefty bottles. (Seriously, these things are paper weights.) The bottle itself is part of the ritual: He wanted something that didn’t resemble conventional fragrance packaging, but instead felt like it had come “out of some mystical apothecary,” he says. The shape is intentionally tactile, sized to sit naturally in the palm, reinforcing the idea that scent can be held and focused on rather than applied absentmindedly.

For me, the most striking detail is the clear base, inspired by scrying, a form of divination involving crystal balls. Chamberlin describes it as an invitation to gaze and ponder, turning the bottle into something you look into as much as something you wear.

That same intention guides Luna Absolute, which is the one I called one of 2025’s very best fragrances. Chamberlin notes that, because the full moon is “the point of illumination” (a moment for reflection and clearing rather than accumulation), the structure of the brand’s “full moon” scent needed to reflect that balance. Tobacco, oud, and palo santo give it ritualistic depth, while rose and hinoki add what he calls “glowy elements.”

“I just wanted it to feel like a spell in a bottle,” Chamberlin says, “or even a ritual in a bottle”… something steady and centering as opposed to performative.

Most of my hundreds of fragrances live in an archive—I can’t display them all, and some of them I only wear a few times of year. But with Sage & Salt, there is no archiving. These things are on display. And on top of that, they’re getting mileage, too; I know they’re both tied to the moon, but I stick with Luna Absolute at night, and Moon Ring by day; I love an earth essence as a daytime signature, personally.

Which is why I feel so confident recommending them both as worthy additions to your olfactive wardrobe—no matter when you end up wearing them.