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Givenchy Iii
Givenchy

Iii

Citrus
Fresh
Floral
Rose
Jasmine
White Floral
Iris
EDT · 1970 · womens

Givenchy's Iii, launched in 1970, represents the house's mastery of classical fragrance composition during a golden era of perfumery. The brand's heritage in sophisticated French elegance provides the foundation for this enduring chypre.

The fragrance opens with a bright aldehydic burst alongside bergamot, galbanum, and peach, creating an immediate freshness with green, earthy undertones. The heart is densely floral, layering carnation, jasmine, rose, lily of the valley, and narcissus over orris root, which adds powdery depth. The base settles into a woody-amber foundation built on oakmoss, vetiver, patchouli, and sandalwood, rounded out with softer notes of myrrh and coconut. This structure is quintessentially chypre, balancing crisp top notes against a creamy, mossy base with florals bridging the two.

Iii suits anyone drawn to classical feminine fragrances with genuine complexity and staying power. It's an EDT with real presence, performing well from day into evening, particularly during cooler months when its woody-floral character shines. The fragrance aligns with The Homesteader, The Sensualist, and The Tactician.

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Main Accordsreported by community
Citrus
22%
Fresh
22%
Floral
90%
Rose
16%
Jasmine
16%
White Floral
60%
Iris
16%
Green
80%
Aldehydic
100%
Woody
89%
Vetiver
22%
Patchouli
22%
Earthy
100%
Powdery
70%
Amber
22%
Warm Spicy
22%
Spicy
16%
Balsamic
22%
Sweet
44%
Smoky
22%
Creamy
44%
Fragrance Notesbrand verified
Top · 0–30 min
Aldehydes
Aldehydes
The chemical family that created modern perfumery, aldehydes were first used prominently in Chanel N°5 (1921), adding a soapy, abstract, almost metallic sparkle that lifted the fragrance above anything previously possible. They don't smell like anything in nature; their effect is more textural than aromatic. Aldehydic fragrances feel luminous, sophisticated, and distinctly 20th century.
Bergamot
Bergamot
A sun-ripened Italian citrus with a brightness that goes beyond lemon, simultaneously tart, floral, and slightly spicy. It's the defining note of Earl Grey tea and the backbone of countless fresh colognes. Perfumers love it as an opener because it lifts the entire composition without overpowering what follows.
Galbanum
Galbanum
One of perfumery's oldest raw materials, a bitter, intensely green resin with a cut-grass, slightly medicinal quality. It's the note that gives vintage green chypres their sharp, naturalistic edge. Galbanum alone is almost unpleasantly aggressive, but in a composition it adds a vivid green freshness that nothing else can match.
Gardenia
Gardenia
Intoxicatingly creamy and white-floral with a waxy, almost narcotic sweetness. Gardenia shares the heady indolic quality of jasmine and tuberose but with a fresher, greener edge from its glossy leaves. A challenging note to use well, too much overwhelms, but a well-handled gardenia accord is memorably beautiful.
Mandarin Orange
Mandarin Orange
Peach
Peach
Ripe, juicy, and velvety, peach has a warm, slightly creamy sweetness that feels lush rather than childish in the right context. It adds a fruity sensuality to floral and oriental fragrances, and its slightly fuzzy quality can even play into tactile, skin-like accords. A note that feels like high summer.
Heart · 30 min – 3 hrs
Carnation
Carnation
Spicy, clove-like, and slightly powdery, carnation is one of perfumery's oldest floral notes, with a warm, almost peppery character that distinguishes it from softer flowers. It has a vintage, slightly old-fashioned quality that is coming back into fashion. Think pressed flowers in an old book, warm and complex.
Hiacynth
Hiacynth
Jasmine
Jasmine
Intoxicating, heady, and slightly animalic, jasmine is one of the few flowers that smells as rich in a bottle as it does climbing a garden wall at dusk. It has an almost fleshy, indolic quality that stops it reading as purely 'clean.' Jasmine is a workhorse in both feminine and masculine perfumery, adding depth and soul.
Lily Of The Valley
Lily Of The Valley
Crisp, green, and dewy, this spring flower smells like rain on cool grass with a clean, soap-like clarity. It's one of perfumery's most requested scents despite being nearly impossible to extract naturally, so it's almost always recreated synthetically. The result is fresh, tender, and timelessly elegant.
Narcissus
Narcissus
Green, honeyed, and slightly rubbery, narcissus (daffodil) is one of perfumery's most complex and difficult white florals. It has an almost animalic indolic quality alongside its sweetness, giving it a raw, living-flower character that synthetic white musks can't match. Used carefully it adds extraordinary depth.
Orris Root
Orris Root
Rose
Rose
The queen of floral notes and the most-used ingredient in fine perfumery. Real rose is simultaneously velvety, honeyed, and slightly spicy, nothing like the synthetic candy version. Depending on the variety used, it can anchor a composition or drift through it like a ghost, adding warmth without dominating.
Base · 3–12 hrs
Amber
Amber
A warm, resinous accord rather than a single ingredient, amber is typically built from labdanum, benzoin, and vanilla to create a rich, honeyed, almost solar warmth. It's the quintessential base-note family, adding a comforting richness that makes fragrances feel complete. The difference between a fragrance feeling cold and feeling alive.
Coconut
Coconut
Creamy, tropical, and slightly sunscreen-like, coconut reads as summery and carefree. In light doses it adds a beachy sweetness; in heavier use it can veer into suntan lotion territory. Most effective when paired with citrus or florals to lift it from the beach bar and into the realm of wearable tropical fragrance.
Myrrh
Myrrh
Deep, bittersweet, and slightly medicinal, myrrh is a resin with a complex, almost anise-like quality that sets it apart from frankincense. It adds a dark, almost sacred quality to oriental fragrances and is more challenging and assertive than its biblical companion. A note that rewards patience.
Oakmoss
Oakmoss
The defining ingredient of classic chypre perfumery, damp, forest-floor earthy with a faint bitterness and incredible complexity. Real oakmoss is now heavily restricted by IFRA regulations, which is why vintage chypres smell so different from modern ones. When present, it creates a raw, outdoorsy anchor that no synthetic fully replicates.
Patchouli
Patchouli
Dense, earthy, and darkly sweet, patchouli is the scent of damp soil and dried herbs with an almost chocolatey richness. It polarizes people because in high concentrations it's overwhelming, but as a supporting note it adds depth and longevity that almost nothing else can match. The backbone of countless oriental and chypre fragrances.
Sandalwood
Sandalwood
Creamy, smooth, and milky with a soft, skin-like warmth that clings beautifully. True Mysore sandalwood is one of perfumery's most precious ingredients, simultaneously wood and skin, never cold or sharp. It rounds off sharp edges in any composition and makes the wearer smell subtly, irresistibly warmer.
Vetiver
Vetiver
Earthy, smoky, and complex, vetiver root is extracted from a grass native to India and has a scent that is simultaneously rooty, woody, and slightly lemony. It's one of perfumery's great base notes: tenacious, unisex, and endlessly adaptable. A fragrance built around vetiver feels grounded and deeply confident.
Who Wears ThisScent DNA matches
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The HomesteaderBest match85% match
Rooted, warm, and entirely self-sufficient.

Warm skin musks, sandalwood, soft cedar, clean vetiver. Grounding, intimate, unhurried.

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The Sensualist85% match
You fill the room without trying.

Warm, smooth, projecting. Leather, tobacco, dry amber, bold woods.

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The Tactician85% match
Precision over excess. Always.

Crisp, dry, clean, worn close. Citrus, aromatic herbs, light woods, soft musks.

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Scent Profile
Citrus22%Fresh22%Floral90%Rose16%Jasmine16%
Fragrance Family
Chypre
EDT

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What does Givenchy Iii smell like? +
Givenchy's Iii, launched in 1970, represents the house's mastery of classical fragrance composition during a golden era of perfumery. The brand's heritage in sophisticated French elegance provides the foundation for this enduring chypre. The fragrance opens with a bright aldehydic burst alongside bergamot, galbanum, and peach, creating an immediate freshness with green, earthy undertones. The heart is densely floral, layering carnation, jasmine, rose, lily of the valley, and narcissus over orris root, which adds powdery depth. The base settles into a woody-amber foundation built on oakmoss, vetiver, patchouli, and sandalwood, rounded out with softer notes of myrrh and coconut. This structure is quintessentially chypre, balancing crisp top notes against a creamy, mossy base with florals bridging the two. Iii suits anyone drawn to classical feminine fragrances with genuine complexity and staying power. It's an EDT with real presence, performing well from day into evening, particularly during cooler months when its woody-floral character shines. The fragrance aligns with The Homesteader, The Sensualist, and The Tactician.
What are the notes in Givenchy Iii? +
Top: Aldehydes, Bergamot, Galbanum, Gardenia, Mandarin Orange, Peach. Heart: Carnation, Hiacynth, Jasmine, Lily Of The Valley, Narcissus, Orris Root, Rose. Base: Amber, Coconut, Myrrh, Oakmoss, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Vetiver.
What fragrance family is Iii? +
Givenchy Iii belongs to the Chypre fragrance family. It is an EDT.
What other fragrances smell like Givenchy Iii? +
Based on shared notes, Versace Gianni Versace for women (Amber, Myrrh, Carnation, Jasmine), Chanel N5 Vintage for women (Amber, Oakmoss, Jasmine, Lily Of The Valley), Cartier Must II for women (Oakmoss, Sandalwood, Carnation, Jasmine), Boucheron Pour Homme for men (Amber, Oakmoss, Carnation, Jasmine), Hermes Amazone (Amber, Oakmoss, Hiacynth, Jasmine) may smell similar to Iii.
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Grey market retailers sell authentic fragrances sourced through unofficial distribution -- typically excess inventory from authorized distributors. The product is real and identical to retail. FragranceNet (est. 1997), Jomashop, and MaxAroma are well-established with millions of verified reviews.

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