What better way than to re-learn the basics of a scent routine and dare to use a colourful perfume to combat the dreariness of winter and give yourself a taste of spring and the return of the sun?
DISCOVER OUR PERFUMESWhat better way than to re-learn the basics of a scent routine and dare to use a colourful perfume to combat the dreariness of winter and give yourself a taste of spring and the return of the sun?
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Bespoke Discovery Set
Since we know that choosing a perfume is rarely easy and since you wouldn't be the first to ask us for advice, we have created a Bespoke Discovery Set.
All you have to do is answer the questionnaire we have created and let us surprise you with a selection based on your answers and our expertise.
The best of both worlds!
Bespoke Discovery Set
Since we know that choosing a perfume is rarely easy and since you wouldn't be the first to ask us for advice, we have created a Bespoke Discovery Set.
All you have to do is answer the questionnaire we have created and let us surprise you with a selection based on your answers and our expertise.
The best of both worlds!
Our Workshops
Whether in the soothing surroundings of our Maison Parisienne or from the comfort of your own home, take part in our Workshops and enter the secret world of perfumery…
Our Workshops
Whether in the soothing surroundings of our Maison Parisienne or from the comfort of your own home, take part in our Workshops and enter the secret world of perfumery…
One on one
Gérald Ghislain
When he is creating his perfumes, Gérald interprets in a new way the classic olfactive families by including an unexpected component, to obtain an original and surprising collection.
Our perfumes have a long trail, deep tempered, dense notes and are extremely sensual.
Blog
Perfume, your new skincare routine.
It would seem superficial to associate health virtues with perfume, yet this is the role it played until the end of the 18th century. While it is true that fragrances were a way for humanity to get closer to the deities they worshipped, they were also - and above all - used for their therapeutic benefits.
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A story of Kings and Incense…
As Christmas nighs, time is come to linger a little more on one of the most emblematic raw material of this feast which happens to be the cornerstone of our latest creation – frankincense. A rare good, mythical, too often misunderstood and too little known, frankincense is however the very origin of perfumery. Such is the story we are bound to tell today, so that we may go back to the meaning of the Three Magi’s gift on the occasion of Christ’s nativity.
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Four-leaf Masculinity
This autumn, as the light fades, we have decided to put the spotlight on our historic Characters collection, starting with our Men’s. Launched in 2000, Histoires de Parfums began by transcribing into scents the literary richness of the works of some of the authors dear to Gérald Ghislain's heart, including Jules Verne, Giacomo Casanova, the Marquis de Sade and Ernest Hemingway.
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Encens Roi - A history of perfume.
Incense. From the Latin incensum, this term originally referred to any plant material that could be burned as a sacrificial offering. It was only around the 14th century that the expression frankum incensum - the frank incense - came to be used to differentiate the resin of the Boswellia tree, also known as olibanum, from the others, thus signifying its exceptional rarity, cost and quality.
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