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| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Beauty |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Founder | Jean Laporte |
| Headquarters | , France |
| Products | Fragrances personal care |
| Parent | Puig |
| Website | www |
L'Artisan Parfumeur is a French niche perfume house owned by Puig company from Spain, which also owns British perfume house Penhaligon's. [1]
L’Artisan Parfumeur was established in 1976 by Jean Laporte. [2] In 1982, he left the company, going on to form rival Maître Parfumeur et Gantier in 1988. [3] [4]
L'Artisan is based in Paris—the original store opened on Rue de Grenelle in 1979 [4] —but now has outlets worldwide.
L’Artisan's 2012 release Seville à l’aube was the subject of the book The Perfume Lover , a memoir by Denyse Beaulieu describing her collaboration with French perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour to develop the scent. [5] Together they went through more than 100 modifications to develop the fragrance with notes of orange blossom, incense, smoke, beeswax, flowers and musk. [5]
In January 2015, private equity firm Fox Paine & Company, then L’Artisan's owner, sold the company to the Spanish perfume group Puig (along with British perfume line Penhaligon's). [4]
It specialises in unusual fragrances, working with master perfumers such as Michel Almairac, Evelyne Boulanger, Bertrand Duchaufour, Jean-Claude Ellena, Dora Baghriche-Arnaud, Elisabeth Maier, Karine Vinchon, Fabrice Pellegrin, [2] Olivia Giacobetti, [2] and Anne Flipo. [2] [6] The emphasis is on scents from nature.
The company sells candles and home fragrances as well as fragrances.
Fragrances (with date of release):
Some of these fragrances are no longer in production.
Beginning in 2005, L'Artisan has issued a limited edition "grand cru" soliflore perfume each year from a specific harvest of a particular flower. The creator of the fragrances is master "nose" Anne Flipo. Production is limited to a few thousand bottles each. The price is considerably higher ($250–$295 per 3.4 ounce bottle) and the packaging more elaborate than for the regular fragrances. These include:
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