Aubusson
Provençal perfumery in a quiet key.
Aubusson is a French fragrance house founded in 1984 by Daniel Aubusson and based in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The name borrows from the central French town long associated with woven tapestries — a quiet nod to craft and pattern that runs through the line. The house's debut, Histoire d'Amour, was a classical chypre in a year already crowded with chypres, and it has remained the brand's anchor for four decades. Subsequent releases have stayed within accessible French perfumery — feminine florals, citrus colognes, modest masculines — without straining toward the avant-garde. Distribution leans on perfume discounters and gift sets rather than department-store prestige. For wearers who came of age in the late eighties and early nineties, Aubusson reads as familiar comfort: well-built, recognisably Provençal in its lavender and citrus accents, and priced for everyday wear. It is a small house with a long bench rather than a fashion phenomenon.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
