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Traditions

Perfumery has regional grammars. These 11 groupings are for browsing, not a formal classification: a house sits where its work and its address put it.

Lavender field
11 housesNiche French

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

 Incense smoke
5 housesMiddle East

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

 Street in Paris
4 housesHistoric French

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

 Ivory silk
3 housesFashion house

Couture labels with their own fragrance lines.

 Brownstone houses
2 housesAmerican

Houses founded in the United States.

 Garden roses
2 housesBritish

Modern British houses founded since the 1990s.

 Glass bottle
2 housesEmerging

Houses founded after 2010.

 Lemons on the tree
2 housesItalian

Italian houses, from Parma cologne to Turin luxury.

 Apothecary jars
1 houseHeritage

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

 Street in London
1 houseHistoric British

London perfumers with long retail histories.

 Conifer forest
1 houseScandinavian

Houses founded in the Nordic countries.

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