Fragrance house

Parfums d'Orsay

Parfums d’Orsay traces its origins to 1830, when Alfred d’Orsay created a fragrance for himself and Marguerite de Blessington to share. His heirs formally founded Maison D’Orsay in Paris in 1865, introducing Eau du Bouquet in reference to that original scent. The house’s early history included ownership changes, including its acquisition in 1916 by Jeanne-Louise Guérin in association with Théophile Bader. In 1925, D’Orsay participated in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, while perfumer Henri Robert created Dandy. Amélie Huynh acquired the brand and its archives in 2015, after which its aesthetic, olfactory, and narrative direction was reworked around love, intimacy, and fragrances intended to be shared across genders. The contemporary relaunch was publicly associated with Huynh in 2019 and involved several perfumers. The original shared fragrance, represented by Eau du Bouquet, remains a defining reference in the house’s couple-oriented and unisex identity; Tilleul, first dated to 1915, was later reinterpreted as Vouloir être ailleurs.