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Perfume Shops

Parfumerie Trésor | From Inherited Scent Memories to a Shop That Tells Stories

From family memories of perfume to a Hong Kong specialist boutique. Follow Pauline Lau and Benny Tung through its founding, moves, niche fragrance selection, storytelling, sampling and current ELEMENTS location.
Perfume Shops

OFFICINE UNIVERSELLE BULY: A Nineteenth-Century Apothecary Re-created by Hand

Explore Buly’s shops through the words of Ramdane Touhami and Victoire de Taillac: the Paris relaunch on rue Bonaparte in 2014, the French and Japanese craftsmanship of Daikanyama, and service completed with lettering and wrapping.
Fragrance Suppliers and Companies

Coty’s Suresnes Factory: Production and Industrial Heritage Connecting Fragrance, Bottles and Boxes

Explore the Cité des parfums in Suresnes through perfume and cosmetics production, work shared with nearby towns, and records of workers and deliveries. Discover the new factory of around 1936 and the buildings and decoration that survived its closure.
Fragrance Suppliers and Companies

Draeger: The French Printing House That Brought Great Perfumes to Paper

Explore how Draeger shaped perfume's printed world through boxes, labels, catalogues and advertisements. Surviving sample books and museum records reveal the designers, materials and printing processes behind the images.
Fragrance Suppliers and Companies

Verescence: Making Iconic Perfume Bottles Lighter without Losing Their Beauty

Explore Verescence's bottle-making expertise through Arizona's sculpted interior, Narciso Poudrée's inner colour and J'adore's lighter glass, with clear distinctions between recycled content, production figures and furnace plans.
Perfume Shops

Frédéric Malle: Creating a Home Worthy of Perfume

From the former rue de Grenelle boutique to the mirrored Marais store and the stone arches and perfumer-led shelves of rue Cambon, explore spaces for choosing perfume through Frédéric Malle’s words and his architects’ ideas.
Perfume Shops

FLORIS: A Family Perfumery with Shelves from the Great Exhibition

Explore Floris’s Jermyn Street shop, its Great Exhibition shelves, museum and perfumery behind a blue door, and a bespoke service guided by memory and the experience of scent on skin.
Perfume Shops

Fueguia 1833: A Gallery of Scent That Began with a Friend’s Invitation

Fueguia 1833’s perfume shops began as an artistic installation. Explore Bedel’s ideas about galleries and glass smelling vessels, and trace the opening and interior of the Alvear shop.
Perfume Shops

AMOUAGE | A Frankincense Tree at the Boutique Where It Began

From Muscat's original SABCO boutique, with its wooden frankincense tree and Majlis, to two New York stores, explore Amouage's expression of Omani hospitality.
Perfume Shops

Santa Maria Novella: A House of Fragrance Inheriting the Friars’ Apothecary

Florence’s historic flagship grew from a monastic apothecary. Explore the former chapel of the Sala Grande, the old pharmacy and the museum of production equipment to discover a place where fragrances have been made and passed from hand to hand.