Fragrance house

Weil

Weil’s perfume house was officially introduced in 1927 by the Weil family’s furrier business. Its earliest fragrances were created for fur coats, initially to mask fur’s natural odor and later for wear on skin; the early house also used fur-inspired names, including Chinchilla Royal in 1927 and Zibeline in 1928. During World War II, the Weil family moved to the United States in 1940, and the brand returned to Paris in 1946, introducing Antilope and Padisha. Jean-Pierre Weil helped modernize the house around 1960, when Eau de Fraîcheur appeared as a unisex fragrance, followed by Gentilhomme, Weil de Weil, Chunga, and Weil for men between 1966 and 1980. Bambou launched in 1984, with Kipling following in 1986. In 2001, Inter Parfums reported that it owned Weil, acquired in March 1994. Antilope, a floral-aldehydic chypre introduced in 1946, was described as phenomenally successful and identified as Weil’s flagship scent in the 1950s and 1960s.