D'Orsay
Fragrances born from a heartbeat.
Maison d'Orsay traces its origin to Count Alfred d'Orsay, the dandy, painter and society figure who composed scents for himself and a small circle in 1830s Paris and London, and whose name was attached to a commercial perfume line in the late nineteenth century. The house went through several decades of intermittent activity before being relaunched in 2015 by a small Parisian team. The contemporary iteration is built as a niche line of Equivocal Portraits, each fragrance presented as the scent of a fictional or historical figure linked to themes of love, longing or refusal. Compositions have been entrusted to perfumers including Amélie Bourgeois, Anne Flipo, Daphné Bugey and Fabrice Pellegrin. The bottles are unfussy — clear glass, gold script, small format — and distribution runs through niche perfumeries in Europe and selective retailers in the United States and Asia.
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.
