L'Artisan Parfumeur
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| Company 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]