Fragrance house

Cire Trudon

Cire Trudon traces its history to 1643, when Claude Trudon owned a shop on Paris’s rue Saint-Honoré selling spices and candles. A wax-whitening and candle-making manufacture was founded at Antony in 1702 and became a Royal Manufacture in 1719; Jérôme Trudon acquired it in 1737. It later supplied the French Imperial court in 1811 and received a gold medal for candle innovation at the 1889 World Exposition. The modern revival began in 2006, when entrepreneur and creative director Ramdane Touhami reconstructed the house’s history, restored the Cire Trudon name, and proposed developing scented candles. From 2009, creative director Julien Pruvost guided an evolution that retained the historical basis while avoiding an overly retrospective identity. In 2017, Trudon created its first five perfumes, its first personal-fragrance collection, and adopted Trudon as the name better suited to its broader fragrance identity. In 2018, it launched a bee-conservation program. Its candle legacy includes Ernesto, identified as a bestseller and described as leather-and-tobacco, and Abd El Kader, a Moroccan mint-tea-inspired fragrance.