robert gonnon
Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
The compositions
Sikkim Parfum Lancôme
Sikkim Parfum
Sikkim
Gardenia opens Sikkim with a lush, white-floral creaminess that galbanum's cool, green sharpness immediately counterbalances — this tension between tropical and austere defines the opening and gives it more edge than a pure floral allows.
Sikkim Lancôme
Gardenia opens Sikkim with a lush, white-floral creaminess that galbanum's cool, green sharpness immediately counterbalances — this tension between tropical and austere defines the opening and gives it more edge than a pure floral allows.
Empreinte Courrèges
Empreinte opens with peach and bergamot in the manner of late-sixties feminines — ripe and luminous, an era when fruit was used as warmth rather than sweetness.
Empreinte
Empreinte opens with a tart, fleshy brightness—peach and bergamot cut through with galbanum's green bitterness and a hint of fig's milky sweetness.
Metal
Ô de Lancôme Lancôme
The lemon arrives sharply, almost medicinal in its clarity, softened only slightly by bergamot's rounder citrus edge.
O de Lancome
The opening is a clean citrus burst—lemon and bergamot with a green, slightly bitter edge from petitgrain—that quickly gives way to an herbal aromatic heart.