Blog – Histoires de Parfums

Away, together in Calabria

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 ...

Music, perfume & synaesthesia...

Many of you will no doubt have noticed that the olfactory lexicon borrows a lot from that of music - we speak readily of accords, of notes, of mute...

A little taste of summer

Ah, here comes summer. Here comes the call of Parisian terraces, of escapades in the provinces, of Atlantic journeys, of week's end retreats in Bri...

Chocolate and Marie-Antoinette

"At seven o'clock, Sanson comes in. (...) The Queen lunches of a cup of chocolate brought in from the neighbouring café and one of those sweet roll...

Gourmand-croquant

What do the Gulf and Balkans wars, hot chocolate, Thierry Mugler, candyfloss and a “little black dress” have in common? They are all symbols, more ...

Queen of flowers & flower of Queens...

Thinking of perfumery and femininity inevitably leads to looking at the history of the Rose. This flower, the most emblematic of all, almost the qu...

The woman who invented perfumes.

Perfumery owes a lot to women. Whether it is the discreet diligence of Marie-Thérèse de Laire who formulated mythical bases of perfumery with the m...

Winter fragrances

"Winter, tonight, smells of spring". This verse taken from Charles Guérin’s poetry would seem banal to anyone not used to caring for seasonal smell...

A brief history of the Almond tree...

To trace the origins of the Almond would almost be to trace back those of mankind itself for it is indeed one of the first fruits that humans domes...

1969: Histoires de Parfums X Baby Yors

As a child, Baby's flamboyance and love for theatrics made him distinct, but he also felt his artistry was stifled with a non-negotiable expectati...

A story of...Chypre.

Autumn rises and with it the multitude of its characteristic odours. The air, ripe with a smell of moss and damp earth, of fallen leaves, of ripe m...

Natural synthesis

Considerations on niche perfumery.You will surely have noticed that the world of niche perfumery has somewhat shattered lately into even small bubb...

The woman who lived off of the scent of flowers

Eva Vliegen, the woman who lived on flowers. The first blossoms herald the coming of spring. Camellias flower under the brisk mantle of winter’s e...