Absolue

Les Parfums

Every composition currently in the house ledger, across all seven classic families and all five concentration tiers.

All AmbréBoiséChypreCuirFloralFougèreHespéridé
Floral · 2016 Jardin d’Iris The house's lightest bottling — a daytime iris composition at eau fraîche strength, mostly water carrying… Vetiver root, a Bois de Vétiver ingredient reference Boisé · 2005 Bois de Vétiver Vetiver root and cedar built as the composition's heart rather than its base — the family's… Hespéridé · 1998 Zeste du Matin Bottled at true eau de cologne strength — 2–4% — the tier the entire naming convention… A polished raw amber specimen — the fossil resin the accord borrows its name from, not an ingredient in it Ambré · 1978 Ambre Solitaire An oriental composition built almost entirely from resins — labdanum, benzoin — rather than the vanilla-forward… Lavender field in bloom, a Fougère du Couvent ingredient reference Fougère · 1962 Fougère du Couvent The fougère accord — lavender, coumarin, oakmoss — built the way the 1882 original defined it,… Rockrose (Cistus), source of the labdanum in Mousse d'Ombre Chypre · 1951 Mousse d’Ombre Our chypre — bergamot resolving into oakmoss and labdanum the way François Coty defined the family… Tanned leather hide texture, a Cuir de Nuit ingredient reference Cuir · 1934 Cuir de Nuit The house's only extrait, and the only formula that calls for birch tar — the raw… Rose petals and rose otto oil, a Fleur de Grasse ingredient reference Floral · 1897 Fleur de Grasse The house's founding composition, unchanged since 1897 — the formula that started the ledger.