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Perfumer

robert gonnon

Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.

Credits9 perfumes
Houses3
SignatureFloral
Catalog · 9

The compositions

1971 · edp
Lancôme · 1971

Sikkim Parfum Lancôme

1971 · parfum
Lancôme · 1971

Sikkim Parfum

1971 · other
oak·jas·ros·amb
Lancôme · 1971

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.

1971 · edp
oak·jas·ros·amb
Lancôme · 1971

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.

1970 · edp
pea·san·ros·jas
Courrèges · 1970

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.

1970 · other
san·oak·ros·lea
Courrèges · 1970

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.

1979 · other
Paco Rabanne · 1979

Metal

1969 · edp
lem·ber·ros·vet
Lancôme · 1969

Ô de Lancôme Lancôme

The lemon arrives sharply, almost medicinal in its clarity, softened only slightly by bergamot's rounder citrus edge.

1969 · other
oak·ros·ber·lem
Lancôme · 1969

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.