Maison Dixsept

Maison Dixsept was founded in 2020 by Catherine Zhou, a Chinese creative who established the house as an explicit dialogue between Chinese cultural sensibility and classical French perfumery craft. Based in China, the house commissions compositions from French-trained perfumers — including Pierre-Constantin Guéros and Leslie Gauthier — whose work incorporates Chinese botanical and poetic references while adhering to European fine-fragrance construction. The name, French for seventeen, carries a private significance in Zhou's personal history. The resulting scents occupy a genuinely bicultural space, neither simply Western luxury exported East nor a surface application of Chinese iconography onto a European template. Ingredients drawn from Chinese landscape — tea, osmanthus, bamboo — appear alongside Western woods and resins, creating fragrances that feel composed rather than fused. Maison Dixsept distributes through niche boutiques and its own website.