Mouchoir de Monsieur
Mouchoir de Monsieur dates to 1904, when lavender fougères defined masculine perfumery, and the formula reads as a document of that era.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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
- Sweet60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Cinnamon
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readMouchoir de Monsieur dates to 1904, when lavender fougères defined masculine perfumery, and the formula reads as a document of that era. Lavender and bergamot announce the opening with herbal clarity; cinnamon and neroli add warmth before the heart fills out across tonka bean, jasmine, rose, and patchouli.
Oakmoss and amber underpin the base with a characteristic Guerlain weight at the dry-down. Iris adds a powder note that rounds off the edges without softening the composition's character. For those familiar with Jicky or Mitsouko, the structural logic here is recognizable: meticulous, unhurried, more interested in slow evolution than immediate impact. A fragrance that rewards patience over several hours.
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.
