Makers

From René Lalique’s bottle designs and moulding patents to Marc’s turn to crystal, today’s artisans and the house’s first fragrance in 1992: the craft of making beautiful vessels repeatable.

How Sissel Tolaas treats smell as information: collection, analysis and preservation, fear-related sweat, a Melbourne memory game, extinct flowers and clothing at the Met.

Discover Guerlain’s Dames de Table, from sealing stoppers and brushing silk tassels to knots, wax seals and the hand-finishing of exceptional perfume bottles.

Now known as Zignago Vetro France, Brosse combines semi-automatic and automatic glassmaking. Explore its moulds, glass distribution, decoration partnerships, and bottle inspection.

From a glassmaking family to a global manufacturer, HEINZ-GLAS connects mould development, automatic forming, surface decoration, quality research, and electric melting.

Trace Baccarat’s perfume bottles through its work with Guerlain and Coty, from historical designs and mould making to crystal forming, engraving, polishing, and quality inspection.

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.

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.

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.

With origins in 1623, Pochet brings glassmaking, decoration and inspection together. Bottles for Jour d’Hermès, Idôle and Phantom reveal the people and processes behind the finished form.