Fragrance house

Project Renegades

Project Renegades launched in 2016 as a niche fragrance brand created by perfumers Mark Buxton, Bertrand Duchaufour, and Geza Schoen. The project originated with Schoen, who brought together Buxton and Duchaufour after the three had worked together in the perfume industry; they developed it as an independent creative project after leaving the corporate environment. Its creative identity is built around perfumer-led freedom, with the founders working without conventional commercial briefs or focus-group constraints so each could pursue an individual concept. Project Renegades presents this approach through a fictional Wild West-style world, depicting the three perfumers as illustrated avatars whose bottle sculptures were designed to detach as fridge magnets. Its first collection comprised three eponymous fragrances, one authored by each founder, all launched in 2016.