Mon Numéro 10 L'Artisan Parfumeur 2009

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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

Oriental

Sweet

Woody

Fragrance Notes

Cinnamon

Frankincense

Red pepper Cedar

Cedar

Perfumer

Bertrand Duchaufour

Ratings

Scent

7.5226 Ratings

Longevity

7.8177 Ratings

Sillage

6.9182 Ratings

Bottle

8.0175 Ratings

Value for money

6.731 Ratings

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

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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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/24/2014

10
Bottle 5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 9
Scent

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

8
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Vitodito
90 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

5
Pricing 10
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

ScentGrail
95 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

03/13/2021

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Zerotonin
12 Reviews

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Zerotonin

Top Review 18

skyward

We sit around the campfire. It is a spring evening and already dark; it is cool, but the fire warms. It is quiet, no one is talking. Lost in thought, we watch the flames stretch towards the sky. Someone has applied patchouli - I detect it now and then, ever so slightly and subliminally. Who it comes from, I can't tell. It's not my friend, he's wearing incense today.
He steps closer and hands me a large cup of black tea. He meant well and put 4 sticks of cinnamon in it right away. I take a sip. The taste of cinnamon fills my mouth, and its smell drowns out that of the burning wood. My friend sweetened it. Good, strong forest honey settles on my tongue.
It's getting colder. I move closer to the fire and press my hands to the cup. I want more of the smells that surround me.
After some time, the group slowly disperses. The Patchouli person has already left, and the fire is just an ember.
I put away the cup, which has been refilled a few more times, and we make our way home. Longingly, I look back.
In bed at night, just before falling asleep, I still have the taste of cinnamon in my mouth, the incense of my friend in my nose, and the smoke of the fire in my hair.

05/10/2020

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Vrabec
62 Reviews

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Vrabec

Top Review 11

En Voyage chez l'Artisan perfumer: 7 Mon Numero 10 - scratchy soft cinnamon

This will be my last comment for the time being on the "En voyage chez l' Artisan Parfumeur" series.

I always found the brand "l'Artisan Parfumeur" very exciting, because it brought out great fragrances that I like very much and at the same time smell special or different. That not everyone in this forum sees it that way became clear to me when reading the comments on "Mon numero 10". Especially the perfumer "Bertrand Dechafour" is criticized for throwing more and more perfumes quite unimaginatively and in the shortest time on the market. The Mon Numero fragrances at least all came out in 2009, along with 4 other of his fragrances. In total there are 211 perfumes in 26 years (perfume database). Well, that's a lot - as many as successful perfumers of "mainstream brands". It also makes me think, I'm also more of a friend of low-frequency output. Of well-designed perfumes that take time. And some fragrances could have been saved for my taste as a niche house, but that was just my opinion when testing
Mon Numero 10 starts off biting, scratchy, accompanied by the scent of freshly felled trees and wood, as smooth as laminate.
There are very few notes here and I can't smell much more. The focus is undoubtedly on cinnamon, much more spicy than sweet. The sweetness I feel cloudy and light, no sticky Tonka nectar. Very pleasant, it has nothing overwhelming. Frankincense shows itself in its mildest form, soft, discreet, unsmoked. From a distance it smells like fresh cool dough, which is intended for Christmas pastries. Wonderfully soft, but not unmanly. One looks for a course in vain, which I find a little pity. Only the sweetness just described interacts with the scratchy form of cinnamon, which together with pepper stings the nose wonderfully I like that, but it's not quite enough. A cinnamon scent of this kind never occurred to me before and would be great as the base of a perfume with a thrillingly cheeky flow. It's a bit too simple for me
I think the scent is absolutely wearable for each sex, but preferably towards autumn or winter, in the middle of summer nobody wants to smell cinnamon.
I find it nice that it is not too strongly projected and therefore never seems penetrating
Thank you very much for reading my comment.