Ed Pinaud
A Parisian perfumer since 1830.
Édouard Pinaud opened his Paris perfumery, A la Corbeille Fleurie, on rue Saint Martin in 1830, after an apprenticeship in Cologne and a few years selling soaps and pomades. By the 1850s he had partnered with Émile Meyer to build a perfume factory at La Villette, supplied Queen Victoria and Napoleon III, and turned his name into one of the recognisable signatures of nineteenth-century French perfumery. After Pinaud's death in 1868 the house passed to Meyer and then to Victor Klotz, who carried it through the Belle Époque with bestsellers like Flirt (1891) and a flagship at 18 place Vendôme. The American line — Clubman Pinaud, Lilac Vegetal — became a barbershop staple and is the part of the legacy most still recognise today. The modern Ed. Pinaud catalogue leans on these traditions: classical eaux de cologne, men's grooming, and reissues drawn from the archive.
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.
