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Mon Numéro 10 L'Artisan Parfumeur 2009

7.5 / 10 231 Ratings

A popular perfume by L'Artisan Parfumeur for women and men, released in 2009. The scent is spicy-smoky. It was last marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Spicy

Smoky

Sweet

Oriental

Woody

Fragrance Notes

Cinnamon

Frankincense

Red pepper Cedar

Cedar

Perfumer

Bertrand Duchaufour

Ratings

Scent

7.5231 Ratings

Longevity

7.8180 Ratings

Sillage

6.9186 Ratings

Bottle

8.0180 Ratings

Value for money

6.736 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro · last update on 03/14/2025.

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Interesting Facts

Initially only a single copy was made available. In 2011, the fragrance was re-released in limited quantities as part of the Mon Numéro collection. It is now part of the regular range since 2014.

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What the fragrance is similar to

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Reviews

11 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/24/2014

9Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Tar
261 Reviews

Tar

Helpful Review 3

Bongs, clatters, zooms

Thrilling – with the same cold caress, as the cold air, when you ensconces yourself to a shadowy place from the warm sunshine.

It begins with a mystic floral-spicy frankincense, I suspect cloves, so the scent is borrowed from mulled wine, shadow and anise. It levitates above my skin as the look of a wicked lurker. The lurker leans against a stone wall in the old town, maybe in the French baroque era. It gets sweeter, but its smile is still evil and very old.

A lady comes in long, rustling, heavy skirts, her skin is creamy white, her dress is grey and black velvet, with difficult lacing. Such a sweet courtesan! Her kiss is opulent and gentle, with deep red flowers, sweeter than expected.

MON NUMERO 10 ends with an unthinkable deep red royal fragrance. Real amber maybe? I do not know. But I will not wear this fragrance on weekdays, I will wear it only when I am at home, alone, and I can pay enough attention to its mysterious transition and historical air.
Please keep it highly respected. Do not believe to the test paper, do not believe the cap odor. Do not let yourself hurry. It unfolds his/her true secrets only on your skin, slowly, step by step.

10/27/2022

9Scent 10Longevity 8Sillage

Vitodito
94 Reviews

Vitodito

2

Coke on a Leather Jacket in a Church

I found a 30ml old fashioned bottle for an incredible price and i blind bought it, and it was the best decision ever!

Oh my, i can’t believe how underrated it is. I have to agree with the common review, it smells like you’ve thrown a cherry coke can on a leather jacket in a church, but i think the cherry vibe is actually cinnamon.

The performance is very good, the smell is really really great and nothing weird, is just leathery fruity, the incense is low to my nose, smells really classy, likeable and different but, again, not weird at all.

At the end of the day, we are talking about the best perfumer ever who made a perfume for the best niche brand ever, what can go wrong? :-)

12/15/2023

7.5Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

ScentGrail
110 Reviews

ScentGrail

1

A Touch Of Spice

Where to start, and to sound objective. The main issues I see here are the price and the perfume oil quality. This is wearable, enjoyable, and has its fans. For a brand often coined as the first niche house in the world, we have to set our expectations higher than usual. Half-baked work means mediocre results, and there is no other way to say it here. I don’t care who the perfumer is or whose house fragrance comes from when I evaluate fragrances. My small 30ml bottle will stay with me until I finish it, and the chance of me ever repurchasing it is zero.

TOP NOTES
The fragrance opens up with a unique accord that has been described in various ways. Some have described the fragrance as smelling like stewed fruits in liqueur, while others compare it to the scent of Cherry Cola. I would ignore the note listing and try not to search for every little piece inside since it is not as complex as the ingredients suggest. The top notes have a fizzy, spicy effervescence dominated by makeup-smelling aldehydes, cinnamon, and cold-pressed cardamom.

HEART NOTES
At its heart, the fragrance embarks on a continued olfactory journey marked by a dynamic interplay of notes, contributing complexity and depth to the overall olfactory experience. The initial spiciness and aldehydes harmonize with a fusion of churchy incense and white musk. These carefully selected notes and accords define the fragrance’s distinctive sweet, spicy oriental warmth, particularly suitable for colder seasons. The pinnacle of this scent unfolds in the dry-down, showcasing Duchaufour’s skillful blending.

BASE NOTES
Based on the provided notes, the dry-down is not underwhelming but safe. I would have appreciated a more detectable animalistic aspect to elevate the fragrance beyond its current presentation. The sweet, incense, aldehydic journey concludes with a fusion of vanilla and semi-sweet tonka beans. Considering the mention of a leather accord in the heart and base notes, one would expect a more pronounced leather presence. The fragrance exudes a slight air of mystery but remains tame, catering to those who prefer not to wear edgy niche perfumes.

OVERALL
The fragrance is durable without overpowering, and the bottle design is visually impressive, featuring an unusual aldehyde note rarely seen in oriental perfumes. Questionable value for money raises considerations for potential buyers, and the unequivocal statement that I won’t repurchase it after the bottle is finished encapsulates my overall sentiment.

Read the full review at scentgrail.com

08/30/2015

7.5Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

Gaukeleya
109 Reviews

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Gaukeleya

Top Review 48

A Fascinating Number

Currently, L'Artisans are once again being offered at a discount chain, as has already been reported on Parfumo. Among them is the seemingly lesser-known "Mon Numéro 10," which has different fragrance pyramids: the one listed here on Parfumo and the one featured at a well-known niche shop.

Anyway: both sound interesting to me, and I like L'Artisans anyway (the bottles alone are a visual and tactile Hallelujah for me). After a brief hesitation, I bought it, quite curious. Here I read initial impressions of liqueur, rum, Lekkalekka. I like that! Fusel, amber, leather - bring it on!

I sprayed it.

Yes, it starts off fusel. However, it’s not rum or dark liqueur, but rather a clear one with sharpness and a citrus attack. I pause. But not bad. Different. Leather is already in the background, rather delicate, light to medium brown, smooth leather, not too soft, but also not coarse. Well-groomed. Smoke? Yes, that’s there too. Rather light, rather cool, rather discreet.

The scent becomes cooler on me. Almost sour, at least when I get close to my skin. It conveys a slightly metallic freshness, gently enveloped by the leather, leaving a strange yet strangely attractive hybrid impression. And it remains transparent and understated.

From time to time, I catch a whiff when I move, and that is quite wonderful and fine, almost "special," also with a certain warmth. Unobtrusive, yet you notice it. Who or what is that? What smells so interesting, non-perfumey, creamy, indefinable, discreet, yet somehow penetrating? What has something of soft wood, but also something sharp at the edges, of non-coarse leather, of skin, of spices, of freshness and warmth at the same time? And that with moderate projection?

If I try to capture it by pressing my nose to my skin, it’s no longer there; instead, I only smell a certain sour sharpness. All that the Numéro 10 exudes in its diffuse aura is not directly graspable; it eludes me.
But I don’t want to get too esoteric; let’s say it openly: this is one that strongly engages (or repels) with the different skin scents. Even though I still don’t know how a scent can smell so beautifully clouded, yet when sniffed directly at its source, it becomes so biting.

Well, it takes a long time on me before it changes more offensively to the warmer side, even when sniffed directly on the skin. After about 5-6 hours, the temperature shifts; it becomes sweeter, more lovely, more amber-like, more vanillic, darker. Now it is indeed delicious, even on the skin, and the projection doesn’t seem to diminish at all.
However, the red thread remains; I can still recognize the Numéro 10 from the first hours in the base. It is a hard-to-name, transparent, and interesting theme that wanders from sharp-cool to purring-warm, oscillating between feminine and masculine.

A fascinating number, this 10.

10/06/2016

5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

DasguteLeben
136 Reviews

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DasguteLeben

Top Review 37

serial killer

Bertrand Duchaufour is a busy man; I believe there is no other major perfumer with such a conveyor-belt-like output. In this respect, his "Numéro" fragrances for L'Artisan are fundamentally honest in their naming: they are, viewed kindly, études in which he plays with his fragrance toolkit. Less kindly, one might ask why someone of Renzo Piano's caliber is dealing with prefabricated modules instead of occasionally presenting a truly great creation. Consider that the great Edmond Roudnitska spent over two years tinkering with Eau Sauvage - what emerged was a classic Eau de Cologne with an overdose of Hedione, a simple but brilliant idea, a fragrance of the century. But those were different, clearly better times, because ironically, the massification of the fragrance market is not a truly successful strategy; it poses not only an aesthetic but also an economic problem, as the multinationals are now realizing. Unfortunately, no one has dared to break free from the spiral of mediocrity, and thus haute perfumery has largely settled at the level of air fresheners, with all competitors hoping their clone of Million will be the next big seller.

Against this backdrop, I find it unconstructive to view a product like Mon Numéro 10 as an independent work of art and Duchaufour as an artistic genius in the 19th-century sense. He is a technically skilled constructor of a series, working under time pressure and with a very limited budget, in an industry that, thanks to brilliant marketing, successfully offers Dacias at Ferrari prices. The ironic break lies in the fact that the numbered line began as a series of bespoke fragrances, with a single bottle priced at $20,000. In a second step, the fragrances were assigned to cities and offered only through an exclusive outlet - in the case of Numéro 10, Barney's New York. Then the series became available online, and eventually, this fragrance ended up in the TK Maxx bargain bin - the story of an artificially generated exclusivity cycle that essentially reveals everything essential about the nature of today's (pseudo) luxury market. Naturally, such a gradual downgrading with a truly limited product, like 150-year-old Oud, would be completely unthinkable.

Michael Edwards classifies Mon Numéro 10 as "dry wood" - this is very accurate, as the fragrance is almost nose-burning with Norlimbanol or similar dry wood synthetics, harking back to a classic Duchaufour theme, which he perfected in Timbuktu according to Luca Turin (the current Timbuktu, however, has as much in common with the original as the single bottle No. 10 likely does with the mass-market version). Alongside the dry wood, there is dry leather and woody-synthetic incense (Bertrand's Comme des Garçons period beckons from afar). So far, so conventional. What distinguishes this fragrance is the unusual spice accord layered over it - pink peppery, nutmeg-cardamom-like, cinnamon. Together, this results in a note for most Americans somewhere between Dr. Pepper and Cherry Coke - not something one would want to pay $200 for the "can," which is why the fragrance has rarely been positively reviewed west of the Atlantic. As a transatlantic hybrid, I share this association, but I do not find it compelling. No. 10 immediately reminded me of classic sharp shaving soap with spice and typical rose geranium notes, and I thought immediately of Penhaligon's Sartorial, Duchaufour's cheeky homage to the classic, cheap barbershop fougères of the last century - different context, different marketing, but there are definite connections. The amber base that emerges after a few hours, composed of musk and tonka notes, is disappointingly cheap, but in this respect, L'Artisan has never been an alternative for Lutens enthusiasts like me. Thanks to the super-adhering synthetics, No. 10 simply lasts forever and withstands even washing attempts, and for a fragrance from this house, it is unusually penetrating. It irritates my sinuses so much that I will certainly not wear it again and will promptly dispose of the scent strip in front of me outside the apartment.

This analytical-contextual review already reveals that Mon Numéro 10 does not move me; rather, it interests me at best as a case study of the state of the perfume industry. The overly obvious plug modules and routines prevent that "suspension of disbelief" necessary for a fragrance to transport me to a special memory or emotional place - just as the stereotypical nature of serial mainstream pop leaves me cold or cliché-driven literature like Dan Brown. Even if that were not the case, the synthetics here are simply too harsh for me - which says something given Duchaufour's blending talent. I have little hope that his future works will appeal to me, especially since he mentioned in an interview that he wants to turn to the Ellena school of synthetic minimalism, which I consider a creative dead end (see Monsieur Li). I would prefer he spend two years in a Buddhist monastery and absorb the soul of Jacques Guerlain.

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49 short views on the fragrance

Hermesh

10 years ago

7Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

1

Unusual mix of fruity sweetness, freshness and slight background incense, which spices the scent up.

Jssfranch

9 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

A wet sugar cube

Andrula

5 years ago

8.5Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

29

24

On the wooden balcony
our Monsignore
with the censer
He thinks of apple strudel
The soul's food is the word
The body loves yeast noodles

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Bastian

4 years ago

6.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

26

24

Pepper and cinnamon are the dominant notes.
It becomes a bit incense-like later on.
Well done... but too monotonous for me.
Not my thing.*

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Gandix

4 years ago

8.5Scent 7Longevity 8Sillage

24

22

Cinnamon dances on cherries
sweet soft smoky mist
a contemplative array.
Quiet admiring pepper applause.

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Amadea70

3 years ago

8.5Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

21

12

Crazy scent, once you get a whiff
Cedar so strong it’s almost like licorice
Spicy and fruity with pink pepper
Incense is just a hint

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SchatzSucher

6 years ago

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

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6

More spicy-powdery than oriental. Gentle unsacred incense refined with cinnamon. A fine sweetness lingers. Pleasant and wearable.

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Chizza

5 years ago

7Scent

16

9

Quite sweet incense thanks to the cinnamon; rather warm. Very wearable for fans of light incense, still feels contemplative.

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Ohdeberlin

10 years ago

9Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

16

2

Rum, fruity liqueur, a cocktail glass brimming with warm, dark amber accord served under gentle incense, cheers to well-being!

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Helena1411

6 years ago

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15

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KN: Cinnamon powder gently dusts with a hint of pepper..
HN:..over incense figures that burn fragrant wood..
B:.& burn fragrant wood &..
#ChildhoodScent

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