Givenchy III Givenchy 1970 Eau de Toilette
Givenchy III opens on a sharp green chord — galbanum and bergamot scything against aldehydes — that reads as 1970 the way a tweed lapel reads as 1970.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Mossy80
- Green70
- Floral55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Aldehydes
- Peach
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readGivenchy III opens on a sharp green chord — galbanum and bergamot scything against aldehydes — that reads as 1970 the way a tweed lapel reads as 1970. There is nothing ingratiating about the first minute; it announces a chypre and then expects you to keep up.
The heart unfolds slowly: jasmine, hyacinth, narcissus and rose threaded through iris, with a cool green stem still running through the floral arrangement. It is a bouquet held at arm's length, not pressed to the chest.
Underneath, oakmoss is the spine — held by patchouli, vetiver, sandalwood, leather, and styrax. The drydown reads dry, slightly bitter, almost tannic, the way the great green chypres of the late '60s and early '70s often do. A composition for someone who finds beauty in the unsweetened, and prefers a fragrance that argues rather than flatters.
Scent twins
In this family
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
