Fragrance house

Piguet

The story of Robert Piguet begins with its founder, who was born in Yverdon, Switzerland, in 1898 and moved to Paris at 17 to study at Redfern and Paul Poiret. He opened a Paris atelier on Rue du Cirque in 1933, then established the House of Robert Piguet at the Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées in 1938. Its fashion legacy included training Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy. In the late 1940s, Piguet worked with perfumer Germaine Cellier on Bandit and Fracas. Although the fashion house closed in 1951, the name continued in fragrance through the 1960s, including Cravache and Futur. After several ownership changes, Fashion Fragrances & Cosmetics acquired the brand in the 1990s and is identified as its current parent company and legal owner. The company sought to reintroduce the house by restoring earlier fragrances with modern ingredients and limited updates. Fracas, created by Cellier and launched in 1948, received the Fragrance Foundation’s Women’s Fragrance Hall of Fame award in 2006.