Stephanie de Saint Aignan
French niche authorship, uncompromising.
Stéphanie de Saint-Aignan founded her namesake Parisian niche house in 2006 following classical perfumery training at ISIPCA in Versailles. Working entirely as her own nose, de Saint-Aignan launched an initial collection of seven fragrances in 2007 — including Amande Honorable, Berberiades, Le Pot aux Roses, and Voleur de Ciels — each reflecting a distinct personal memory or inspiration: Berberiades drew from Marrakesh, Tobacco Mucho from her father's pipe, Voleur de Ciels from a private faith. The project ran until around 2011, producing a small catalog of fragrances now regarded as significant examples of early 2000s French auteur niche. De Saint-Aignan's work privileges compositional integrity and autobiographical honesty over commercial ambition, creating a body of work that feels genuinely personal rather than positioned. Though the house's active production appears to have ceased, its output retains interest among collectors and historians of independent French perfumery.
- Aromatic100
- Green100
- Fresh100
- White Floral83
- Woody83
- Powdery83
- Warm Spicy
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.
