Korloff
French jewellery house, in fragrance.
Korloff Paris was founded in 1978 by Daniel Paillasseur, a Lyon-born jeweller who built the brand around the legend of the Black Korloff diamond — an 88-carat black stone said to have belonged to the Russian Korloff Sapojnikoff family for centuries. Jewellery remains the house's primary trade; fragrance is a related extension of the same dark-luxury aesthetic. The perfume line debuted in 1996 with the floral-fruity Korloff and grew through the 2008 KN°I/II/III collection into a steady stream of warm orientals, gourmands and fougères. Bottles often borrow the geometry and black-stone iconography of the jewellery; compositions are generous, sweet-leaning, and well-suited to evening wear. Distribution runs through the brand's own boutiques and international perfumery. It suits a wearer drawn to overt French luxury — black diamonds, gold accents, generous projection — rather than restraint.
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.
