Retrouvailles

Retrouvailles takes its name from the French noun for the particular joy of reunion — the moment of meeting someone again after a long absence — and builds its entire catalogue around that premise. Each fragrance is designed to transport the wearer somewhere specific or return them to someone particular, with the Grasse-trained perfumers Hamid Merati-Kashani, Jérôme Epinette, Alexis Dadier, and Philippine Courtière contributing compositions that pursue emotional precision over trend. The house launched in 2019 and has released steadily through 2025, accumulating a library that spans Mediterranean sunlight, wooded interiors, and coastal salt without resorting to the ready-made solutions that make many entry-niche houses interchangeable. Jérôme Epinette, whose prior collaborations include work for Byredo and Olfactive Studio, brings compositional rigour to the project; the result is a small brand with ambitions considerably larger than its footprint suggests, grounded in the conviction that a remembered scent is among the most durable forms of human emotion.