Claude Andre Hebert
Montréal perfumery composing fragrances around the city's neighbourhoods.
Claude André Hébert is a Montréal perfumer who began working with fragrance after holding senior positions at Aramis, Lancaster, and Thierry Mugler Parfumerie for Eastern Canada. He launched his own line in 2002, driven by a conviction that most commercial perfumery prioritised ingredient lists over narrative and emotional resonance. From his boutique on Saint-Denis Street, Hébert builds each fragrance as a story anchored in place — most distinctively in his Montreal Collection, which maps the city's distinct neighbourhoods into scent: Old Montreal in amber and leather, the downtown core in florals cut with tobacco, Mount Royal in pine and incense drifting from Saint Joseph's Oratory. Five fragrances composed for the city's 375th anniversary in 2017 brought his neighbourhood-based method to international attention. The brand remains an independent, small-batch operation emphasising vegan, cruelty-free, and largely natural ingredients.
Releases
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.
