Jean d Albret
Historic French fragrance house with aristocratic heritage.
Jean d'Albret was founded in 1946 by Comte Guillaume d'Ornano, a member of the French aristocracy with deep cultural connections to the postwar luxury revival. The house takes its name from Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre and mother of Henri IV, connecting fragrance to French historical identity and the legacy of Renaissance court culture. Founded in the optimistic atmosphere of postwar French luxury reconstruction, Jean d'Albret positioned itself within the prestige tier as a house of genuine aristocratic distinction — perfumery as an expression of lineage, cultural refinement, and French historical consciousness. The house's most celebrated fragrance is Casaque, launched in 1952 and representing the bold, animalic orientals that defined early postwar French luxury fragrance. Jean d'Albret's catalogue represents a specific moment in the history of French perfumery, when noble founders treated fragrance as a natural extension of cultural patronage. While no longer actively producing, the house is historically significant and its vintage fragrances are collectible. D'Ornano's family connections extended to the French cosmetics industry through subsequent generations.
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.
