Oriza L. Legrand
Oriza L. Legrand traces its origin to 1720, when Fargeon Aîné, perfumer to Louis XV, founded the Maison Oriza at the French court. In 1811 Louis Legrand acquired the house and installed it at 207 rue Saint-Honoré, where it became one of the great Parisian perfumeries of the nineteenth century. The Société Centrale de la Parfumerie Française liquidated the brand in 1939 and Oriza faded from the market for the next seven decades. In 2012, Franck Belaiche and Hugo Lambert reopened the archives and relaunched the house, reformulating historical fragrances such as Chypre Mousse and Foin Fraîchement Coupé and adding new compositions in the same spirit. The bottles, labels, and typography are deliberately archaeological, drawn from the original commercial registers. The perfumery operates from a single boutique on rue Saint-Augustin in Paris, run by the founders themselves.
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.
