Héritage Berbère

Heritage Berbere is a Moroccan artisan perfume house run from a workshop and boutique in the Sidi Ghanem district of Marrakech, near the Majorelle gardens. It was established in its current form in 2008 by Marie-Jeanne Combredet, who had earlier trained and worked in Grasse before returning to her childhood home in Morocco to build a brand around North African botanical materials. The house leans on natural extracts of rose, hibiscus, jasmine, cedar, sandalwood and patchouli, and produces eau de toilettes, eau de parfums, room sprays, candles and soaps largely by hand. Its compositions tend toward warm, resinous and amber-leaning portraits of Marrakech rather than the bright neroli and orange-blossom postcard the city is more often given. Distribution is small and largely tied to the Marrakech boutique and a handful of European stockists, which keeps prices in a reasonable upper-mid range for natural-leaning artisan work.