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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 with 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Importance of being Fragrant

Perfume in times of social-distancing.A rain curtain is fallen over the city, a humid atmosphere reeks of electricity, a doleful sky watches over ...

Restaurant to be: Elmer

In the third arrondissement a blue facade that invites you to discover & travel while diving in the heart of the best French products.

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