Pierre Guillaume Paris

Pierre Guillaume Paris is the independent house of perfumer Pierre Guillaume, who grew up in a family of chemists and collected essential oils as a child. He was barely 25 when he made his first perfume, 02 Coze, while trying to reproduce the smell of his father's cigar cellar. In 2010 he set up the company Pierre Guillaume Diffusion, with its own composition studio, raw material cellar and packaging line. A second workshop opened in 2015, and in 2023 the house moved into a new Manufacture in the Auvergne.

The business is run from the 1st arrondissement of Paris, but the perfumes are made in its own factory in the Auvergne. There the team handles maceration, ageing and filtering, then assembles the bottles. The house says it works in complete creative and financial independence and makes only perfume.

In Paris, go to the Pierre Guillaume Paris Palais Royal Store at 10 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, between the Louvre and the Palais-Royal. A mosaic by ceramic artist Amandine Armand marks the entrance, and on the lower level the red monkey by sculptor Roland Cognet, brought from the house's former shop at number 13, still keeps watch. The house also has two shops in Clermont-Ferrand, one at the Manufacture, plus shops in Lyon and Toulouse. A 50 ml Le Musc & La Peau costs 120 euros and 100 ml costs 170 euros. Try it first: it is a skin scent of seven musks, made to wear alone or under another perfume.