Mitsouko Guerlain 1919 Eau de Toilette
The 1919 Mitsouko is Guerlain's chypre archetype, and the Eau de Toilette concentration runs cooler and more transparent than the parfum.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Mossy85
- Fruity70
- Floral60
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Citrus Fruits
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Lilac
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
By the editors · 2 min readThe 1919 Mitsouko is Guerlain's chypre archetype, and the Eau de Toilette concentration runs cooler and more transparent than the parfum. Bergamot opens with jasmine and rose woven through it from the first moment — there is no clean citrus phase, only fruit-on-skin warmth from the start.
The heart's signature is peach: not the literal fruit but the aldehydic peach character that defined the chypre genre, here softened by ylang-ylang. The base drops the temperature: oakmoss thick and damp, vetiver rooting it, cinnamon pulling spice through, ambergris adding a salty animal warmth.
A fragrance that wears like weather more than like a perfume. Cool damp days, fall, considered occasions.
Scent twins
In this family
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