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The atelier · Grasse, France
Since 2019
Perfumer Camille Arnaud grew up between the jasmine fields of Grasse and her grandmother’s kitchen in Marseille. After fifteen years composing for large fashion houses, she left to make perfume on her own terms.
Today our small team works from a converted 19th-century perfumery on the Chemin des Roses. We make eight perfumes, rather than eighty, and we take as long as each one needs.
How it’s made
01
We buy raw materials from growers we know by name: May rose from the fields around Grasse, orris from Tuscany, vetiver from a cooperative in southern Haiti. Natural materials are paired with safe, modern molecules for clarity and longevity.
02
Some of our materials are still distilled the old way, in copper alembics in a stone barn outside Grasse. It is slow and expensive, and it gives oils with a warmth that industrial extraction cannot match.
03
Each perfume takes Camille between one and three years and often more than two hundred trials. Every formula is weighed by hand on a precision scale and judged on blotters, then on skin, for days at a time.
04
Once blended, every batch rests for six weeks in the dark so the materials can marry, then is chilled, filtered and bottled by hand. We number every batch and never make more than three hundred bottles at a time.
300
bottles per batch
6
weeks of maceration
20–22%
perfume concentration
0
animal-derived ingredients
What we stand for
Vegan & cruelty-free
No animal-derived ingredients and no animal testing, at any stage.
IFRA compliant
Every formula meets the latest International Fragrance Association standards.
Recycled glass
Bottles contain 30% recycled glass. Caps are FSC-certified beech.
Plastic-free packaging
Paper tape, recycled card and a linen-covered box made to be kept.
The atelier is open for small guided visits on Saturday mornings from April to October. Write to us to book a place.