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Grey Flannel Eau de Toilette
Fragrance & Beauty · 1975 fragrance

Grey Flannel Eau de Toilette

A green, flannel-grey fragrance bottle that carries the Beene name beyond tailoring.

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Story & heritage

Geoffrey Beene founded his New York house in 1963, and by the mid-1970s the name had expanded through licenses including eyeglasses and fragrance. Grey Flannel, launched in 1975, became the brand’s best-known scent and won the Fragrance Foundation’s 1976 men’s prestige award.

The fragrance keeps the designer’s preference for dressed-up comfort in another form: a sober green bottle, a grey label, and a name that points back to menswear rather than spectacle.

Materials & craft

FragranceNet lists the design house as Geoffrey Beene and calls out galbanum, neroli, petitgrain, bergamot and lemon among the notes; Wikipedia also records orange, lemon, rose, geranium, sandalwood and cedar wood.

The current retail bottle remains deliberately restrained: dark green glass, black cap, and a quiet grey label that reads more like a tailor’s swatch than a loud grooming product.

introduced in 19751976 Fragrance Foundation awardgalbanumnerolibergamotsandalwood

How to choose & style

Wear it like the name suggests: with pressed trousers, an oxford shirt, a navy blazer, or an off-duty knit when you want a dry, old-school finish rather than a sweet trail.

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