Knize
Men's finest fashion since 1858.
Knize is a Viennese gentlemen's tailoring house founded in 1858 by the Bohemian tailor Josef Knize, which earned the imperial appointment 'k.u.k. Hof-Schneider' to the Habsburgs in 1888. The Graben 13 shop, redesigned by Adolf Loos between 1910 and 1913, is one of the most important surviving Loos interiors in Vienna and remains the brand's flagship. The house's claim to perfumery fame is a single composition: Knize Ten, released in 1924 and credited to François Coty and Vincent Roubert, with the bottle attributed to Loos himself. It is widely considered the foundational dry-leather fragrance — the template that shaped Cuir de Russie, Bel Ami, and most masculine leathers that followed. Knize remains a tailor first and a perfumer second; the line is small, classical, and aimed at wearers who treat fragrance as continuous with their wardrobe.
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.
