Perfumer
maurice maurin
Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
Credits6 perfumes
Houses3
SignatureWoody
Catalog · 6
The compositions
Azzaro · 1989
Acteur
Bergamot opens with citrus brightness while cardamom contributes a warm, slightly medicinal-sweet spice — a pairing that establishes the aromatic masculine direction without resorting to an easy freshie opening.
Hermès · 1974
Amazone 1974
Amazone opens with a sharp green strike—galbanum and violet leaf cut through the air like sunlight on wet ferns, bracing and bright.
Hermès · 1974
Amazone (1974) Hermès
Amazone opens with a cool, green assertion—galbanum and violet leaf creating a brisk, almost defiant clarity that feels more like morning air than garden prettiness.
Jacques Bogart · 1975
Bogart
Bogart arrived in 1975 when masculine fragrance was writing its own grammar, and this composition reads like a foundational document of the form.
Hermès · 2017
Amazone (2017 re-launch) Hermès
Hermès · 2017