Maison Francis Kurkdjian
The French art of living in all its modernity
Maison Francis Kurkdjian was founded in Paris in 2009 by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian and businessman Marc Chaya, two decades after Kurkdjian's industry-defining work on Le Mâle for Jean Paul Gaultier. The house was acquired by LVMH in 2017 but remains creatively led by its founder, who composes nearly every release himself. The catalogue is small, deliberate and tightly edited around a few signatures — Aqua Universalis, Oud Satin Mood, Grand Soir and the Baccarat Rouge 540 family that turned the house into a global phenomenon. The work is technically precise, generous with synthetic radiance, and presented in restrained Art Deco bottles that share little of the maximalism common to the upper niche tier. Pricing sits clearly at the high end.
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.
