Parfums Bombay 1950
Italian craft, global itinerary.
Parfums Bombay 1950 is an Italian niche fragrance house founded in 2009 by Luciano Sorrentino d'Affitto, taking the nostalgic romance of mid-twentieth century Bombay as its defining creative premise. The brand evokes an imagined cosmopolitan city at a specific historical moment — the port city as crossroads of British colonial modernity, Mughal heritage, and mercantile world travel — translating that layered cultural mix into fragrance. Compositions tend toward rich, resinous, and spiced structures reminiscent of sandalwood bazaars, sea salt, and tobacco, filtered through Italian perfumery's characteristic emphasis on elegance and finish. The house crafts a small, curated range that rewards collectors drawn to narrative-driven perfumery with strong sense of place and period. Distribution is selective, running through independent Italian boutiques and specialist online retailers internationally. Parfums Bombay 1950 occupies an intriguing niche: an Italian house speaking in an Indian-inflected olfactory language that feels both historically grounded and entirely contemporary in execution.
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.
