Juliette Has A Gun
Niche perfumery as weapon of seduction.
Juliette Has A Gun was founded in 2006 in Paris by Romano Ricci, the great-grandson of couturier Nina Ricci and grandson of Robert Ricci, who created L'Air du Temps. Rather than entering the family business, Ricci spent seven years working in perfumery before launching his own line under a Shakespearean alias: a contemporary Juliette who carries her perfume as a weapon of seduction. The house pitches itself as a deliberate provocation against the over-codified language of niche perfumery. Compositions favour single bold ideas — Lady Vengeance's rose, Not A Perfume's Cetalox in isolation, Musc Invisible's nearly-skin musk — over densely layered classical structures. Ricci composes alongside collaborators including Francis Kurkdjian, who mentored him in the early years. The aesthetic is wry, sharp, slightly cinematic, and the brand has scaled to a wide international presence while keeping the editorial voice intact.
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.
