Private company

L'Artisan Parfumeur

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Perfume company

L'Artisan Parfumeur is a French perfume house owned by Puig, which also owns British perfume house Penhaligon's.2 It was founded by Jean Laporte.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1976Founded1
  • Industrymanufacture of perfumes and toiletries, perfumes industry1
  • HeadquartersParis1
  • Websitewww.artisanparfumeur.com
  • Legal formlimited liability company (with no further details)1

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L'Artisan Parfumeur is a French perfume house owned by Puig, which also owns British perfume house Penhaligon's.2

Corporate structure

L'Artisan Parfumeur is part of a group headed by Puig. 14 entities, 4 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Founded by Jean Laporte in 1976.1

L’Artisan Parfumeur was established in 1976 by Jean Laporte. In 1982, he left the company, going on to form rival Maître Parfumeur et Gantier in 1988.

L'Artisan is based in Paris—the original store opened on Rue de Grenelle in 1979—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. Together they went through more than 100 modifications to develop the fragrance with notes of orange blossom, incense, smoke, beeswax, flowers and musk.

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).

From Wikipedia’s article on L'Artisan Parfumeur, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Leadership

Who has led L'Artisan Parfumeur, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

  • perfume

Listed on Wikidata.1

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, Olivia Giacobetti, and Anne Flipo. The emphasis is on scents from nature. The most popular perfumes of L'Artisan Parfumeur are Mure et Musc Extreme, Timbuktu, Passage d'Enfer, Bana Banana, L'Ete en Douce.

The company sells candles and home fragrances as well as fragrances.

Perfumes

Fragrances (with date of release):

Some of these fragrances are no longer in production.

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Limited editions

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:

Fleur d'Oranger 2005 (Orange blossom harvest of April 2004 from Nabeul, Tunisia)

Fleur de Narcisse 2006 (Narcissus harvest of June 6–7, 2005 from Lozère, France)

Iris Pallida 2007 (Tuscan iris harvest of 2001). Iris scent molecules take three years to form in the roots (rhizomes) of the iris plant. These roots are dried, ground into colloidal powder, and treated with alcohol to make orris butter, the precious pure absolute of the Iris pallida plant. It takes 41 tons of iris root to produce one kilogram of rhizomal extract.

Fleur d'Oranger 2007 (Orange blossom harvest of April 2006 from Nabeul, Tunisia)

From Wikipedia’s article on L'Artisan Parfumeur, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1976Founded Founded1

Sources

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