What Maison Violet is known for
Revived 1827 Parisian perfumery — neo-vintage compositions of the Second Empire. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Maison Violet is a Parisian perfume house tracing its founding to 1827, when François-Étienne Violet began composing fragrances that would come to mark a formative period in French perfumery and cosmetics. The house operated from several Paris addresses across the nineteenth century, most notably 12 Boulevard des Capucines, and built its reputation partly through royal patronage: in 1842 Violet was named an official supplier to Empress Eugénie and to Queen Isabella II of Spain, an honor marked by a bee -- the Empress's personal emblem -- stamped onto every bottle the house produced from then on. Maison Violet held multiple perfumery patents over its lifetime and collected industry awards that reinforced its standing among the era's serious fragrance houses. Like many nineteenth-century maisons, it did not survive the twentieth century intact: the business fell dormant around 1955 as economic pressures eroded it. It remained inactive for six decades until 2015, when three entrepreneurs revived the name, developing what the brand describes as neo-vintage compositions evoking the sensibility of the Second Empire rather than contemporary perfumery trends. Today the reborn Maison Violet is distributed through select department-store partners, including Galeries Lafayette in Paris, rather than through an owned boutique of its own.
How ORBIS reads this city
Best for — Neo-vintage Second Empire fragrance compositions from a revived 1827 Parisian perfumery.
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