Grey Flannel Geoffrey Beene 1975 Eau de Toilette
Grey Flannel is one of the definitive American masculines of the 1970s, and the opening announces its era without apology: galbanum's sharp, vegetable-green bitterness dominates a top that also includes petitgrain, neroli, lemon, and bergamot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Iris70
- Powdery70
- Mossy70
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Neroli
- Lemon
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readGrey Flannel is one of the definitive American masculines of the 1970s, and the opening announces its era without apology: galbanum's sharp, vegetable-green bitterness dominates a top that also includes petitgrain, neroli, lemon, and bergamot. It's a green-aromatic opening of a kind rarely made today — angular, somewhat austere, entirely confident in its departure from sweetness.
The heart is a full-spectrum classical floral with a decidedly powdery, cold character: sage's herbal dryness, iris's root-earth depth, mimosa's almond sweetness, violet's cool powder, narcissus's waxy-green quality, and rose's warmth together create an accord that is primarily earthy and powdery rather than sweet. Narcissus in particular gives Grey Flannel its distinctive cool-dark quality.
Tonka bean, oakmoss, vetiver, almond, and cedar build the base. Oakmoss, in its pre-IFRA form, provides the deep, damp-forest character that anchors the famous grey, muted-flannel aesthetic. A period reference point requiring patience and conviction.
Scent twins
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