Montana
1980s couture power, decanted.
Montana is the fragrance line of the late French couturier Claude Montana, whose Paris-born fashion house defined a particularly architectural strand of 1980s design — broad shoulders, sculpted silhouettes, leather and lacquer. The first scent, Parfum de Peau, arrived in 1986 and remains a touchstone of the decade: a fierce animalic chypre by Jean Guichard built on castoreum, oakmoss and rose, in a Serge Mansau flacon shaped like a curl of metal. A men's counterpart followed in 1989, then Parfum d'Elle in 1990 and a long sequence of flankers and reissues into the 2010s. Claude Montana died in 2024, and although the couture house closed years before, the perfumes — produced under Swiss licence — continue to give wearers access to one of the more uncompromising olfactory voices of the period.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
