Grès
Grès was founded in Paris in 1942 by Germaine Émilie Krebs, a sculptor-turned-couturière who worked under the name Alix Grès. The house built an extraordinary reputation for draped Grecian gowns in jersey and silk, and extended this sensibility into fragrance with Cabochard in 1959 — a leathery-woody chypre developed with perfumer Bernard Chant that became a defining feminine fragrance of the postwar era. The house was sold multiple times after Madame Grès's death in 1993, and the fragrance rights have passed through several owners. The classic Grès formulae — Cabochard, Cabaret, Quartz — are maintained by licensees, and the brand's legacy endures through the devoted following these vintage chypres and orientals continue to attract.
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.
