Marina De Bourbon
French royalty-themed designer fragrance.
Marina de Bourbon was founded in 1993 in Paris by Marina Gacry, whose marriage to Prince André of Bourbon-Parma — a member of the ancient ruling house — gave the brand its aristocratic framing. Before turning to fragrance, Marina had worked as an assistant to Alexandre de Paris, the celebrated court hairdresser who cultivated a clientele spanning European royalty and haute couture, and that proximity to a rarefied world shaped her sense of what a perfume house could represent. The founding collaboration with entrepreneur Gilles Pommereau produced a line of fragrances that translate royal imagery into accessible luxury: gilded flacons, powdery florals, and oriental structures that carry the vocabulary of ceremony without the price of genuine haute parfumerie. The debut fragrance appeared in 1994, and the house has since built a catalogue of around sixty references spanning the decades. Marina de Bourbon occupies a specific retail ecology — department stores, duty-free channels, and online fragrance discounters — where the aristocratic branding justifies a mid-range price. The appeal is to buyers who associate French royal heritage with quality, and the house delivers well-made, conventionally structured fragrances that reward that association without undermining it.
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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.
