Pour Un Homme(1934)

Created by Ernest Daltroff for Caron, Pour Un Homme, For a Man, opens on lavender, rosemary, bergamot, and lemon, moves through an unusually elaborate heart of clary sage, heliotrope, Brazilian rosewood, cedar, coriander, geranium, and rose, and closes on vanilla, musk, tonka bean, amber, and moss. It is widely regarded as one of the definitive fougere-vanilla compositions in masculine perfumery, its lavender-vanilla pairing becoming a template so influential that variations on the accord remain common in men's fragrances nearly a century later. The heliotrope note in the heart, unusual for a masculine fragrance of this period, adds a soft, powdery-almond facet against the sharper lavender and rosemary opening. Caron has kept the fragrance in continuous production since 1934, making it one of the longest-surviving masculine fragrances still available essentially unchanged.