Memo Paris
The journey is the destination
Memo Paris was founded in 2007 by Clara and John Molloy, a French-Irish couple based in Paris. The brand's organising idea is travel: each fragrance is named for a place — Marfa, Tamarindo, Italian Leather, Inlé — and built around materials and impressions associated with that location, with the bottles sharing a uniform shape and a chevron motif drawn from a vintage embroidery pattern. Memo's perfumers have included Aliénor Massenet and Alienor's regular collaborator Julien Rasquinet, and the house is best known for richly leathered or smoky compositions — Italian Leather, Russian Leather, Irish Leather — alongside greener and more luminous works in the Cuirs Nomades and Graines Vagabondes lines. The house operates as part of the wider Memo group, sells through niche perfumery worldwide, and has expanded into hand creams, candles, and a small skincare offering, though fragrance remains the centre of the line.
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.
