Insensé Givenchy 1993 Eau de Toilette
Launched in 1993 by perfumer Daniel Molière, Insensé takes the unusual route of building a men's fragrance on floral rather than fougère foundations.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- Lavender
- Basil
- Blackcurrant
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Mandarin Orange
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readLaunched in 1993 by perfumer Daniel Molière, Insensé takes the unusual route of building a men's fragrance on floral rather than fougère foundations. Aldehydes and black currant cut through bergamot and lavender to open with a bright, slightly metallic tartness that rarely appears in masculine work.
Lily of the valley and magnolia dominate the heart alongside cool iris, all three calibrated to read fresh rather than feminine. The base reduces to a single resinous pillar: fir balsam. Dry, flinty, and abrupt, it anchors the floral-green structure without sweetness. A 2007 reissue under the Mythiques line reintroduced it to a new generation.
Scent twins
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