Theodoros Kalotinis
Greek gourmand artisanry on a grape-alcohol base.
Theodoros Kalotinis was born in Heraklion, Crete, and grew up collecting herbs and flowers from childhood, shaped by a grandmother with roots in Smyrna and a deep intuitive knowledge of aromatic plants. He established his perfume house in 2014, describing it as the first Greek artisan perfumery to centre the gourmand tradition — transforming pastry, confection, and fruit into long-lasting extrait-concentration fragrances. His proprietary method uses alcohol distilled from natural grape spirit as the base, giving compositions a particular smoothness on skin. Kalotinis operates as sole perfumer, producing all compositions himself and crediting the house with international recognition when he created personal fragrances for then-Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in 2018. The portfolio has grown to cover savoury, smoky, and floral registers alongside the signature gourmand identity, and fragrances are stocked by specialist niche retailers in Europe and North America with pricing in the €80–140 range per bottle. The house distributes from its Greek base through an international network, and Kalotinis is particularly celebrated by the online fragrance community for producing accessible, approachable gourmands with genuine artisan depth and remarkable skin-wear.
Releases
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.
