Dajana Jukić, the brand’s owner and creative director, has broken the ice right where it is the thickest. Croatia now truly has a brand whose perfumes are signed by the crème de la crème of perfumers—Olivier Cresp and Nathalie Lorson—and the fragrances are produced at the very heart of the perfume industry, DSM-Firmenich.
Back in 2018., when Anthony Toulemonde, Paul Richardot, and Victorien Sirot launched the first four perfumes of their brand Maison Violet, the story of young business partners whose friendship goes back to the first years of studying at the Ecole Supérieure du Parfum in Paris looked charming and promising.
Now, five years and three more perfumes later, I am fully ready to exclaim: “Well done!”
If it deceivingly seems simple, the face of authenticity may sometimes be considered self-understandable. But that is so until you take a good look around.
This summer, I went through half of a 100 ml bottle of the latest Essential Parfums release – Fig Infusion. What in June seemed like the beginning of a beautiful friendship, in August, became a love that still grows.
Maison Violet is the old french house revived in 2017. The historic outfit is matched with the new formulas, and all five nicely blended creations are the work of Nathalie Lorson: In 2018. Maison Violet launched four perfumes: Sketch, a deep, enveloping amber, Tanagra, a very nice fruity-floral musk, Pourpre…