Courrèges
Courrèges was founded in Paris in 1961 by André Courrèges and his wife Coqueline, both alumni of Balenciaga, and became one of the defining houses of mid-1960s space-age fashion — short white dresses, flat boots, geometric cuts, the kind of clean lines that read as modernism rather than couture flourish. The first fragrance, Empreinte, arrived in 1970, followed by Eau de Courrèges in 1973, both designed with the same minimalist register. After decades of dormancy, the brand was bought back by its longtime collaborators Jacques Bungert and Frédéric Torloting in 2011, and the Pinault family's Groupe Artémis took a majority stake in 2018. Recent fragrance work — Empreinte 1970 reissues, La Fille de l'Air, Hyperbole — leans on transparent florals and aldehydic accords that match the architectural restraint of the clothing.
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.
