Stéphane Humbert Lucas
Painterly Parisian niche, oud-forward and theatrical.
Stéphane Humbert Lucas trained as a painter under a Flemish master in the south of France before moving into perfumery, and the painterly background shows in how he builds compositions. After years signing scents for SoOud and Nez à Nez, he founded his eponymous Paris house in 2013 to work without commercial constraints. The catalogue splits into two bodies of work. La Collection 777, named for what Lucas calls a synesthetic experience of color and scent, leans into Middle Eastern materials: smoky oud, animalic ambergris, saffron, rose absolute, dense resins. La Collection Serpent reads cooler and more European, with mythological framing around snakes, apples, and bitter greens. Bottles are heavy crystal flacons in jewel tones, sometimes with metalwork. Pricing sits firmly in ultra-niche territory, alongside houses like Roja and Xerjoff. The house suits wearers who treat perfume as decorative art and are comfortable with theatrical, opaque compositions.
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.
