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Life of Anna Jarvis or how the carnation became the Mother's Day flower

Life of Anna Jarvis or how the carnation became the Mother's Day flower

In a month's time, France will celebrate Mother's Day, the perfect opportunity for Histoires de Parfums to revisit the unusual history of one of th...

The origins of Valentine's Day.

Willy-nilly, Valentine's Day is now one of our inevitable calendar events – but it wasn't always so. Today, what has become a day of celebration of...

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 t...

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 cornersto...

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 2...

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 a...

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...