Pour Monsieur Chanel, a timeless classic. Having become the embodiment of luxury and beauty, the Chanel house needs no introduction. Mademoiselle revolutionized the world of fashion and beauty.
Gabrielle Chanel was an ambitious woman, unique in her kind. Fascinating, she attracted many men throughout her life. She thus had the fortune of associating with great names of the last century, such as Boy Capel, Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich, or the Duke of Westminster. She drew inspiration from these exceptional encounters to create several of her perfumes. The result is fragrances endowed with a certain distinction, as timeless as they are refined. Such is precisely the case of Chanel's Pour Monsieur. Born in 1955, it is still sold today and continues to captivate men with its fresh, chypre breath. What is the secret of its longevity? Here is our review.
Olfastory’s review
Pour Monsieur, masculine distinction according to Gabrielle Chanel
Pour Monsieur by Chanel is a symbol of timeless elegance. Indeed, Gabrielle Chanel devoted all her heart and skill to it, as did perfumer Henri Robert, in charge of its creation. Together, they put their hearts into the work of crafting an unforgettable scent, and for good reason: Pour Monsieur was the very first men's perfume created by the Chanel house. It therefore had to leave a lasting impression to remain forever engraved in the masculine unconscious. While Gabrielle Chanel devoted most of her life to women, it must be said that this men's perfume is just as brilliant as her feminine fragrances. At once classic and elegant, it embodies the image of a refined man, not without a certain seductive potential. Infinitely sensual and sophisticated, Pour Monsieur also evokes the transformation of men of the last century, now more style-conscious than before.
Pour Monsieur, an elegance that does not lack bite
While Pour Monsieur by Chanel is a very elegant fragrance, it never lacks personality. It opens with a fresh breath, snapping like a whip into everyday life. It combines Sicilian lemon, orange, and neroli, for a very luminous result. Then, to preserve all this energy, it turns toward a spicier yet sophisticated facet, based on cardamom and Bourbon vetiver, a wood renowned for its exceptional quality. Its olfactory harmony ends with a final woody breath. More masculine, Pour Monsieur by Chanel closes on a duo of Virginia cedar and oakmoss.
Chanel's new bottle
Initially, Pour Monsieur by Chanel was presented in a square bottle, stripped of anything superfluous, revealing the beauty of a green fragrance through the transparency of its glass, while topped with an opaque black cap. However, this original container has since disappeared. It has been replaced by the bottle common to all of Chanel's men's eaux de toilette. This forms an elongated rectangle, made up of a transparent base, a shimmering steel band, and an opaque gray cap, itself rectangular. The whole forms a single sturdy yet elegant block, in the image of the perfume it contains.