Collection: Lubin Paris

In a Paris still marked by revolutionary events, Pierre-François Lubin created, at the end of the 18th century, a workshop whose talent was to build his reputation. Lubin had learned to invent perfumes that he elaborated according to the character of each of his customers, which sublimated their personal aura, signing their presence with a spectacular trail.

Introduced to the art of perfume in 1784 by Jean-Louis Fargeon, perfumer to Queen Marie-Antoinette, Lubin lived until the beginning of the 2nd Empire, when the Industrial Revolution was already in full swing. He therefore went through one of the most eventful periods in the history of France. In 1792, he joined the workshop of master perfumer Tombarelli in Grasse, who introduced him to the secrets of Florentine perfumery of the Renaissance. We then owe him the first scents that did not draw their inspiration from nature.

For the young perfumer, the olfactory language allowed him to draw a thousand images. He later inspired his student Septimus Piesse, the first theoretician of the science of perfumes. Lubin was thus a pioneer in his art.