Weil
Parisian heritage perfumer of the fur era.
Weil, properly Parfums Weil, is a French perfume house founded in Paris in 1927 by the brothers Alfred, Jacques and Marcel Weil, who had earlier run a fashionable furrier business at 4 rue Sainte-Anne. Their first fragrances, including Zibeline, Hermine and Chinchilla Royal, were conceived as parfums de fourrure, scents intended to perfume the natural furs the family sold and to mask their animalic edge. In 1946, after the family had been forced into wartime exile in New York, the house released the aldehydic chypre Antilope, which became its enduring signature and a quiet classic of the postwar perfumery shelf. The brand has changed hands several times since the late twentieth century and now exists chiefly as a heritage-revival label, reissuing vintage formulae for collectors and historically minded wearers. The note that remains, despite all the corporate rearrangement, is of an interwar Parisian luxury house that helped invent the very idea of fragrance for the wardrobe.
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.
