Fragrance house

Maison d'Orsay Paris

Maison d’Orsay traces its origin to 1830, when Alfred d’Orsay created a fragrance for himself and Marguerite de Blessington to share. In 1865, his heirs formally founded the house in Paris and launched Eau du Bouquet, echoing Alfred’s original fragrance. During the early twentieth century, D’Orsay linked fragrance with visual art and craft through work with Jean Cocteau, Marie Laurencin, Georges Lepape, and glassmakers Baccarat, Daum, and Lalique. In 1925, perfumer Henri Robert created Dandy, with a bottle designed by Louis Süe and André Mare, while the house presented creations at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. Amélie Huynh acquired Maison D’Orsay and its archives in 2015 through the family group Æra Nova. The subsequent reworking focused on love, intimacy, and gender-inclusive fragrances, with contemporary scents described through unisex compositions and duality. Dandy quickly became iconic for the complexity and arrangement of its composition, while older creations have been reinterpreted through fragrances including Vouloir être ailleurs and À cœur perdu.