Fragrance house

harold

Founded in late 2023 by Christian Paindavoine, Harold & Maude is an independent French perfume house. Its creative identity is neoclassical niche perfumery, combining classical perfume architecture with a more streamlined and personal interpretation. The house’s fragrance concept translates inner emotional states and suggests a presence, treating emotions as ungendered rather than dividing them into strictly masculine and feminine categories. Harold and Maude are presented as an imaginative pairing of two first names and sensibilities, rather than as a strictly documented historical narrative. Nejla Barbir is credited as the perfumer behind the fragrances, whose identity is organized around evocative emotional archetypes and a neoclassical collection concept.