Monsieur de Givenchy
Monsieur de Givenchy opens as a proper fougère of its era — bergamot and lemon citrus up top, clean and sharp, before a herbal middle of lavender, clary sage, and basil takes hold.
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.
- Lavender70
- Mossy65
- Citrus60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Cinnamon
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Basil
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readMonsieur de Givenchy opens as a proper fougère of its era — bergamot and lemon citrus up top, clean and sharp, before a herbal middle of lavender, clary sage, and basil takes hold. The aromatic heart is spare but precise: it has the composure of mid-century masculine perfumery, where clarity of concept mattered more than accumulation of notes.
The base extends through cedar and oakmoss, confirming its vintage structure — mossy, resinous, dry rather than sweet. It is unmistakably a 1959 masculine and wears as such. A historical reference more than a daily recommendation for modern tastes, but its geometric construction remains clear and holds up.
Scent twins
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.
