It's minimalist and fancy at the same time - like art deco. It's also indulgently retro and opulent, like a big budget, big screen remake of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express: the cigars, the leather seats, the mahogany panels - and expensive perfume wafting from the ladies' fur manteaux.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a fragrance for close quarters and deliberate presence: a room with dark wood, upholstered seats and a slow conversation that lingers over smoke and polished surfaces. It projects a cultivated, slightly decadent aura rather than volume, making the wearer seem composed, assured and faintly theatrical.
How to wear
Best in cool weather, when its tobacco, leather and mahogany facets can unfold without feeling heavy. Apply lightly to the chest or scarf for a warm, intimate trail; a couple of sprays are enough, as the scent is designed to sit close and reveal its smoky richness gradually on skin.
Who it’s for
For those who like tobacco fragrances with texture and polish rather than sweetness alone. It will appeal to wearers drawn to smoky woods, leathered warmth, vintage glamour and compositions that feel refined, slightly animalic and confidently unisex.
Release year
2020
The nose
Pierre Guillaume is a French perfumer and chemist known for building his own independent house and working with a highly personal, self-directed style. His fragrances often balance clarity with texture, and in the Black Collection he uses a more architectural approach, shaping compositions as compact olfactory scenes rather than conventional pyramids. Animal Mondain fits that language well: it is a tobacco-led composition with a refined, sensual finish, closer in spirit to his warmer, more intimate work than to austere minimalism. Guillaume’s signature lies in making niche perfumery feel precise, tactile and conceptually sharp without losing wearability.
Pierre Guillaume Black Collection’s story
Pierre Guillaume’s house is built around independence, experimentation and full creative control, with the founder composing and producing in his own French manufacture. The Black Collection reflects that spirit through concise, concept-driven formulas that aim to capture the essence of materials with unusual precision and a modern, almost architectural sense of structure.
Animal Mondain (Discontinued)’s concept
Animal Mondain was introduced as a gender-free tobacco fragrance shaped by 1930s modernism and Art Deco. Guillaume framed it as a new tobacco in his line, positioned between the spicy energy of Cozé and the balmy, liqueur-like richness of Liqueur Charnelle, with imagery drawn from modernist smoking rooms and the glamour of Marlene Dietrich.
Extra info
Animal Mondain belongs to Pierre Guillaume’s Black Collection, a line the house describes as “olfactory photographs.” The fragrance was released on 28 September 2020 and is presented as a modernist tobacco composition with Art Deco references.
It's minimalist and fancy at the same time - like art deco. It's also indulgently retro and opulent, like a big budget, big screen remake of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express: the cigars, the leather seats, the mahogany panels - and expensive perfume wafting from the ladies' fur manteaux.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a fragrance for close quarters and deliberate presence: a room with dark wood, upholstered seats and a slow conversation that lingers over smoke and polished surfaces. It projects a cultivated, slightly decadent aura rather than volume, making the wearer seem composed, assured and faintly theatrical.
How to wear
Best in cool weather, when its tobacco, leather and mahogany facets can unfold without feeling heavy. Apply lightly to the chest or scarf for a warm, intimate trail; a couple of sprays are enough, as the scent is designed to sit close and reveal its smoky richness gradually on skin.
Who it’s for
For those who like tobacco fragrances with texture and polish rather than sweetness alone. It will appeal to wearers drawn to smoky woods, leathered warmth, vintage glamour and compositions that feel refined, slightly animalic and confidently unisex.
Release year
2020
The nose
Pierre Guillaume is a French perfumer and chemist known for building his own independent house and working with a highly personal, self-directed style. His fragrances often balance clarity with texture, and in the Black Collection he uses a more architectural approach, shaping compositions as compact olfactory scenes rather than conventional pyramids. Animal Mondain fits that language well: it is a tobacco-led composition with a refined, sensual finish, closer in spirit to his warmer, more intimate work than to austere minimalism. Guillaume’s signature lies in making niche perfumery feel precise, tactile and conceptually sharp without losing wearability.
Pierre Guillaume Black Collection’s story
Pierre Guillaume’s house is built around independence, experimentation and full creative control, with the founder composing and producing in his own French manufacture. The Black Collection reflects that spirit through concise, concept-driven formulas that aim to capture the essence of materials with unusual precision and a modern, almost architectural sense of structure.
Animal Mondain (Discontinued)’s concept
Animal Mondain was introduced as a gender-free tobacco fragrance shaped by 1930s modernism and Art Deco. Guillaume framed it as a new tobacco in his line, positioned between the spicy energy of Cozé and the balmy, liqueur-like richness of Liqueur Charnelle, with imagery drawn from modernist smoking rooms and the glamour of Marlene Dietrich.
Extra info
Animal Mondain belongs to Pierre Guillaume’s Black Collection, a line the house describes as “olfactory photographs.” The fragrance was released on 28 September 2020 and is presented as a modernist tobacco composition with Art Deco references.