Les Néréides
Bucolic French jewellery and fragrance since 1980.
Les Néréides was founded in 1980 by Pascale and Enzo Amaddeo in Nice, naming the brand after the sea nymph daughters of Nereus in Greek mythology — a name chosen by Pascale's grandfather, a friend of the painter Magritte. The house built its reputation on hand-enamelled costume jewellery, with miniature flora, fauna, and imaginary creatures painted in the Parisian workshop using techniques inherited from high-end jewellery. Fragrances and scented candles followed as natural extensions of the brand's pastoral, fairy-tale aesthetic. The perfumes carry the same visual universe into olfaction: flower-centred, bright, and entirely unpretentious about femininity. Bottles and packaging reflect the jewellery line's illustrative sensibility. Deployed across 28 countries after four decades, Les Néréides occupies a distinctive space between accessible fashion fragrance and artisan craft. It suits wearers who value whimsy and visual narrative in their fragrance purchase, and who see jewellery and scent as part of a continuous personal vocabulary rather than separate luxury categories.
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.
