Dorin
Royal Court of Versailles purveyor since 1780.
Dorin traces its origins to the late eighteenth century, when the Parisian actress and entrepreneur Marguerite Brunet — known as Mademoiselle Montansier — established a beauty house specialising in powders, rouges and perfumes for the city's theatre troupes. In 1780, Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI named the house an official supplier to the Court of Versailles, the date the modern brand carries on its bottles. The business was acquired in 1819 by Marguerite's perfumer partner Jean-Marie Dorin, who renamed it after himself. The contemporary Maison Dorin was relaunched in 1998 by Bashar and Imane Nasri and produces a small, classically French catalogue of eaux de parfum and the Versailles 1780 line, all manufactured by hand in the brand's French workshops. The compositions favour powdery floral and chypre structures rooted in eighteenth-century court perfumery, and the house leans heavily on its royal heritage in identity and packaging rather than chasing contemporary trends.
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.
