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Olibanum, perfume made simple, conscious and committed.

Olibanum, perfume made simple, conscious and committed.

If you don't know it yet, Gérald Ghislain, our intrepid founder, has launched a new project called Olibanum. This new adventure, that of a simple, ...

DIVING INTO THE THREE GOLDS

Launched in 2012, the Three Golds collection is a tribute to the fascination that gold has held for all peoples and times. Conceived as three trilo...

Workshops

"The perfumer’s only tool is his nose. (…) Anyone may acquire a highly developed sense of smell, as this is merely a matter of practice. A good nos...

The Muguet of Mayday

In this month of May, the ambler in France can witness a most prodigious, cyclical and inevitable phenomenon that, having survived the plethora of ...

A little air of Lily of the Valley

Despite its popularity, the lily of the valley has rarely been used for its perfume. Isn't this strange since, as we have read, its name is directl...

The chocolate note in perfumery

If there is no longer any doubt that Easter and chocolate go hand in hand, this has not always been the case when it comes to perfume. Last year in...

These women who changed perfumery

A l’occasion de la Journée Internationale des Droits de la Femme, nous avons souhaité rendre hommage à ces femmes, connues de l’industrie mais méco...

How Cinnamon became the smell of Christmas...

Winter usually means Advent, Christmas, Christmas trees and baubles, chocolates and marzipan - but winter also means cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, cinn...

A Brief History of Jasmine

With nearly 200 different varieties and up to 259 molecules that make up its fragrance, Jasmine is a prolific and prolific flower to say the least....

Moulin Rouge : The Frenchiest cabaret in the world

600,000 spectators and 240,000 bottles of champagne per year, 1,000 costumes, 850 seats, 800 pairs of shoes, 455 employees, 7 world records, and 1 ...

1828 by Histoires de Parfums X Baby Yors: An Exclusive Interview

An olfactive library of stories about famous characters, mythical years, poems and music. The collection is governed by no rules other than inspir...

Away, together in the Balkans

For this new series, Histoires de Parfums has chosen to reproduce the fictional letters of real lovers. Over the course of these lines, we read of ...

Away, together in Calabria

For this new series, Histoires de Parfums has chosen to reproduce the fictional letters of real lovers. Over the course of these lines, we read of ...