Parfums Berdoues
Parfums Berdoues was founded in Toulouse in 1902 by pharmacist Pierre Berdoues, originally as a maker of brilliantines, hair tonics, and eaux de toilette for the regional market. Its early signature was Violettes de Toulouse, a soliflore based on the candied violet that has been a Toulouse speciality since the nineteenth century, and it remains in the line over a hundred years later. The company is still owned and run by the Berdoues family, now in the fourth generation, and operates from a manufacturing site in Cugnaux outside Toulouse. The contemporary catalogue is split between the heritage Berdoues line and the more recent Collection Grands Crus, launched in 2014, which presents lightly priced eaux de parfum keyed to specific raw materials — Assam of India, Oud Wa Ward, Selva do Brasil — and has given the house a second life among accessible niche perfumery shoppers in France and abroad.
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.
