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Caron

Pour un Homme

1934FougèreEDTFrance

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Editorial notes

  1. 01

    A barbershop lavender-vanilla in continuous production since 1934, widely cited as the first dedicated men's fragrance in modern perfumery.

  2. 02

    Daltroff overdosed natural lavender absolute at roughly 61% of the formula and resolved it onto a vanilla-tonka base. The structural template every twentieth-century masculine borrows from started here.

  3. 03

    Still presented in the original ridged-cap flacon, one of the most unchanged bottle designs in luxury perfumery. The label has not moved.

  4. 04

    Composed by Ernest Daltroff in 1934. Sired the lavender-vanilla template that Le Male in 1995 and a thousand drugstore knockoffs are still extending.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active. In continuous production since 1934.

A barbershop lavender-vanilla.

Composed by
Ernest Daltroff
Founder
Ernest Daltroff
Country
France

The pyramid

Top
lavenderlemonbergamot
Heart
rosemarygeraniumclary sagecedar
Base
vanillatonkamuskambergrisbenzoin

The brief

Daltroff overdosed natural lavender absolute (reportedly 61% of the formula) and resolved it onto a vanilla-tonka base — inventing the lavender-vanilla template that Le Male would later extend in 1995.

NameSimply 'For a Man' — Caron's claim that this was THE men's fragrance, no further qualifier needed.

Why it mattered

  • Widely cited as the first dedicated men's fragrance in modern perfumery, and the oldest masculine still in continuous production today.
  • The lavender-vanilla structure became the foundational masculine template of the twentieth century.

Footnotes

  • Caron still presents Pour un Homme in the original 1934 ridged-cap flacon, one of the most unchanged bottle designs in luxury perfumery.

The Curator's Note

Every man who has ever asked for 'something classic' has been asking for this.

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