Les Parfums Mythiques - Monsieur de Givenchy
The 2007 reissue in Givenchy's Les Parfums Mythiques series revives the 1959 original as a citrus fougère — a deliberately uncomplex structure that rewards the clarity of its execution.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Citrus70
- Lavender60
- Mossy55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Lemon Verbena
- Oakmoss
- Hinoki Wood
By the editors · 2 min readThe 2007 reissue in Givenchy's Les Parfums Mythiques series revives the 1959 original as a citrus fougère — a deliberately uncomplex structure that rewards the clarity of its execution. Lemon and bergamot open brightly, their freshness landing without any edgy counterpoint. Lavender and lemon verbena continue the citrus-aromatic momentum in the heart rather than pivoting away from it, making the fragrance feel like one sustained opening. Oakmoss and hinoki wood underpin the drydown with a clean, mossy bitterness — archival enough to feel deliberate rather than dated. A vintage-leaning masculine with no surprises for those who read it as such.
Scent twins
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