Burdin
French perfumery craft, generationally sustained.
Burdin is a French niche perfumery established in 1937 by Stéphane Burdin, sustained across generations as a family enterprise with deep ties to classical French composition. Contemporary releases involve collaborations with award-winning perfumers Véronique Nyberg and Nathalie Feisthauer, whose credits span houses from IFF to independent commissions, bringing technical sophistication to Burdin's heritage-informed vision. The house resists the impulse to modernize through conceptual packaging or celebrity endorsement, preferring to let the fragrances earn attention through quality of material and composition. Burdin's portfolio covers classical families — chypres, florals, orientals — interpreted with a restraint born of long practice rather than deliberate minimalism. The brand's longevity speaks to an audience that has always existed alongside the trend cycle: consumers who want a well-made French perfume without the overhead of a grand maison, and collectors who appreciate craft lineage stretching back to the middle of the twentieth century. Burdin is not a rediscovered house but one that simply never stopped working.
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.
