Astier De Villatte

Astier de Villatte was founded in Paris in 1996 by Benoît Astier de Villatte and Ivan Pericoli, friends from the École des Beaux-Arts who share a passion for the decorative arts and for objects saturated with history. The house first established itself as the only major studio in Paris keeping the tradition of hand-thrown artisanal ceramics alive, modernising eighteenth-century French techniques and breathing new life into old printing methods from its workshop on the Rue Saint-Honoré. Fragrance followed as a natural extension of that sensibility: in 2008, in collaboration with star Takasago perfumer Françoise Caron, the house launched scented candles and an eau de cologne following the ancient Acqua Admirabilis formula — low concentration, high citrus vitality, and almost no persistent trail, intended to inhabit a space rather than assert a personal signature. Later collaborations with Dominique Ropion resulted in three perfumes drawn from historical recipes of ancient Egypt, Rome, and nineteenth-century France, extending the brand's characteristic antiquarian curiosity into olfaction. Astier de Villatte's perfumes are inseparable from its universe of objects: literary, melancholy, learned, and unmistakably Parisian in their quiet refusal of spectacle.