An index of perfume houses

Independent French houses, most of them founded after 1970, selling a small range at a high price.

Gulf and Omani houses working with oud, rose, amber and frankincense.

Paris houses from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the early twentieth-century firms that followed them.

Couture labels with their own fragrance lines.

Houses founded in the United States.

Modern British houses founded since the 1990s.

Houses founded after 2010.

Italian houses, from Parma cologne to Turin luxury.

Houses whose founding story reaches back several centuries, whether or not the record fully supports it.

London perfumers with long retail histories.

Houses founded in the Nordic countries.