Mon Guerlain Sensuelle
Mon Guerlain Sensuelle takes the lavender-vanilla axis of the original Mon Guerlain and deepens it substantially.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Vanilla85
- Sweet80
- Floral75
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readMon Guerlain Sensuelle takes the lavender-vanilla axis of the original Mon Guerlain and deepens it substantially. Lavender opens against bergamot, quickly familiar, but the heart reveals the shift: jasmine sambac alongside iris and rose creates a more opulent floral register, less airy than the parent's softer composition. The base is where Sensuelle earns its name — Tahitian vanilla, tonka bean, benzoin, and a thread of licorice building a warm resinous foundation extended by Australian sandalwood and patchouli. It wears closer to an oriental than a floral, with the sillage and longevity to match. Evening and colder months are where it operates best.
Scent twins
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