pernoire
Swiss innovation, olfactory exploration.
pernoire is a Swiss niche fragrance house founded in 2020 by Nico Mannino and Robin Dünner, working with perfumer Andreas Wilhelm to realize a vision of fragrance as contemporary design object. The name — combining the French words for stone and black — evokes hardness, precision, and a particular quality of light: the reflective darkness of polished mineral surfaces. Compositions reflect this aesthetic sensibility: smoky incense, mineral vetiver, dark woods, and austere resins built into structures that feel architectural rather than decorative. Wilhelm's perfumery background, working within the Swiss tradition of technical precision and material quality, gives pernoire a grounding in craft that matches its formal ambitions. The 2020 founding reflects a generation of niche launches that emerged from design and creative industries rather than from within the perfumery trade, bringing different visual and conceptual references to a medium whose aesthetics had been largely set by the fashion world. pernoire appeals to collectors drawn to fragrance that takes its references from modernist design, mineral sculpture, and the specific gravity of the Alpine landscape.
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.
