Today I Will Be Wearing: Frederic Malle’s Geranium Pour Monsieur

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Today I Will Be Wearing: Frederic Malle’s Geranium Pour Monsieur 

After a weekend of rain and a glimpse of blue sky this morning I wanted a fragrance to put a little spring in my step and a smile on my face. Frederic Malle’s Geranium Pour Monsieur is uplifting and upbeat, fresh and perky, just what you need on a Monday morning. 

Whilst the listed supportive ingredients are warm, spicy notes (aniseed, clove and cinnamon, sandalwood, white musk, incense resinoïd, styrax benzoin) the top and enduring notes are clean, green geranium and mint. It is one of those scents you spray onto your wrist and find yourself pressing to your nose throughout the day, eager to see how it develops and desperate for another hit of the addictive aroma. 

Whilst in many cultures men embrace floral notes such as rich roses, staid British gentlemen back away from anything obviously floral, do not be put off by this fragrance’s name; it is cool, sophisticated and very, very masculine. Dominique Ropion’s Geranium Pour Monsieur is the green fuzzy, dewy leaf of the plant gently rubbed between your finger and thumb. The beauty of this fragrance is the high quality Chinese geranium, that combines both a bright zesty citrus note and also a very warm earthy note, both present in the geranium leaf. 

The mint is those first molecules that escape as you tear a leaf in two. 

The dry down is elegant, smart and sharp; a glimpse of crisp white cotton cuff. 

This fragrance won a FIFI Award (the Fragrance Oscars) when it was released and deservedly so; geranium genius.

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