Première Note
One great note, honoured completely.
Première Note is a French niche house founded in 2014 whose philosophy is embedded in its name: each fragrance is built around a single defining material, expressed at its most truthful and unobstructed. The house takes a reductionist approach to composition, asking what a note smells like when it is given space rather than being buried in an accord. The catalog covers a broad aromatic vocabulary—vetiver, iris, bergamot, musk, oud—with each subject treated with the seriousness of a natural perfumery study. That clarity of purpose earns Première Note comparison to other concept-driven French niche houses, though its price point positions it more accessibly than houses like Serge Lutens or Hermès. Distribution through select French boutiques and online retail keeps the brand focused. For fragrance students and enthusiasts who want to understand what individual materials actually smell like in a sophisticated context, Première Note functions almost as educational perfumery at a wearable scale.
No accords yet.
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.
