E.Coudray
Parisian perfumery since 1810.
E. Coudray traces back to a Paris perfume shop opened around 1810 by Edmond Coudray, a doctor-chemist whose travels supplied the raw materials for eaux de Cologne, pomades and soaps that quickly found their way into European court life. By 1837 the house had been named official supplier to the British court and counted Queen Victoria — for whom 'Reine Victoria' was composed — among its clients. The Coudray family ran the business until 1908, when it was acquired by Edouard Colmant; it was revived after the Second World War on the basis of surviving formulae. The modern collection (Givrine, Vanille et Coco, Jacinthe et Rose, Musc et Freesia) keeps to the soft, powdery, soliflore register of nineteenth-century French perfumery rather than chasing trends. It suits wearers drawn to the gentle, slightly old-world French repertoire — clean florals, milky vanillas, and unhurried elegance.
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.
