Jean Laporte, a chemist, opened L'Artisan Parfumeur in Paris in 1976 with a then-radical idea: sell perfume under its own name rather than a couturier's, in small runs, to people who wanted something unusual.
Mûre et Musc, in 1978, was a commercial hit that proved the model worked. Timbuktu and Dzing!, both by Bertrand Duchaufour, are among the more admired oddities in modern perfumery. Dzing! smells deliberately of paper, sawdust and circus animals.
Known for
- Mûre et Musc
- Timbuktu
- Dzing!
- Passage d'Enfer
See also
Atelier CologneFrance, 2009
BDK ParfumsFrance, 2016
DiptyqueFrance, 1961
Etat Libre d'OrangeFrance, 2006
Editions de Parfums Frédéric MalleFrance, 2000
Initio Parfums PrivésFrance, 2015
Maison Francis KurkdjianFrance, 2009
Memo ParisFrance, 2007
Parfums de MarlyFrance, 2009
Serge LutensFrance, 1992
Entry revised 17 September 2026. Something wrong? Send a correction.