Paloma Picasso
Mon Parfum, for strong women.
Paloma Picasso is a French prestige fragrance house launched in 1984 by the jeweller and designer Anne Paloma Ruiz-Picasso y Gilot — daughter of Pablo Picasso and painter Françoise Gilot — in collaboration with L'Oréal. The debut fragrance, Mon Parfum, was created with perfumer Francis Bocris from Creations Aromatiques over two years of rigorous development, emerging as a bold chypre-floral oriental that Picasso described as intended for strong women like herself. The formulation — bergamot, coriander, and neroli opening onto ylang-ylang and jasmine, anchored in oakmoss, patchouli, and amber — became one of the definitive chypres of its era, a perfume with the authority and permanence of Picasso's own signature jewellery designs. Her grandfather Emile Gilot had been a perfumer and chemist in Grasse, lending the venture an inherited legitimacy. The Mon Parfum flanker and associated bath and cosmetics lines followed, reinforcing a brand identity centred on confidence, artistic lineage, and the unapologetic femininity that defined Picasso's career across jewellery, fashion, and art.
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.
