Fragrance house

Lalique

Lalique was founded in Paris in 1888 by René Lalique, a jeweller and glassmaker who registered the “RL” mark that year. His early work combined precious materials with enamel and glass, establishing a design-led jewellery identity rooted in material experimentation. In 1907, his collaboration with perfumer François Coty brought Lalique into perfume-bottle design and industrial glass production, linking the house’s creative practice with perfumery. The Verrerie d’Alsace at Wingen-sur-Moder began operating in 1922, providing an Alsatian glassmaking base. After René Lalique’s death in 1945, his son Marc succeeded him and shifted the company from glass toward crystal; in 1977, Marc’s daughter Marie-Claude Lalique became head of the business, renewing jewellery design and developing its fragrance activity. Lalique launched Lalique Parfums in 1992 with Lalique de Lalique. Its visual language is expressed through hand-worked crystal, figurative details, clear and satin-finished surfaces, and Art Nouveau and Art Deco influences drawn from flora, fauna and the human form. In 2016, Art & Fragrance changed its holding-company name to Lalique Group, whose activities span perfumes and cosmetics, crystal, jewellery, furniture and living accessories, art, gastronomy and hospitality. Encre Noire, launched in 2007, is described by the house as an iconic men’s fragrance; Encre Indigo was later presented as its sequel.