Frédéric Malle founded Editions de Parfums in 2000 to support luxury perfumery and restore it to its former glory, giving it creative freedom at a time when perfumers remained relatively unknown. Thanks to his vision of perfume, he achieved a masterful result, the fruit of time, precision and true talent. Discover the entire collection Frédéric Malle!
Born and bred in the world of perfumes, with over thirty years of experience, Frédéric Malle is perhaps the greatest perfumery expert. An unconventional and unclassifiable aesthete, he offers artists the opportunity to excel, encourages them to develop their selves and celebrates their creativity. And so, out of each collaboration comes a masterpiece, a perfume whose creator is so proud that he signs it with his name, for the first time. Frédéric Malle founded his Editions de Parfums brand in 2000, to sustain the luxury perfumery and restore it to its former glory. The brand was born out of a desire to restore full creative freedom to the perfumers at a time when these figures remained relatively unknown. Under Malle's guidance, perfume makers regain total freedom, without impositions of time, raw materials or budget, and with no constraints on marketing, with the sole aim of redefining modern classics of the future and creating new masterpieces. Together, perfumers and publisher, realise a vision of perfume as a masterful result of time, precision and true talent.
For over 30 years, Malle has been working with the world's greatest perfumers. Like the best editors, who support and stimulate authors to create the best texts, Malle helps perfumers to give the best of themselves. Frederic Malle's goal is to explore unfamiliar olfactory territories, publish exceptional perfumes and ensure that each of these perfumes stands the test of time. In other words, he wants to help the greatest perfumers to compose the "classics" of tomorrow, in a continuous quest for refinement and elegance. Some people are born with a gift. Frédéric Malle's gift is that of knowing how to use his nose like few others. From Saint-Germain-des-Prés to Central Park, this perfume editor has built himself a world of emotions and intuitions, through which he travels as if turning the pages of a book full of memories, encounters and fantasies.
Frédéric Malle grew up in Paris, in a world of chic perfumes, rare books and the films of his uncle, Louis Malle. From his maternal grandfather Serge Heftler-Louise, the founder of Parfums Christian Dior and a childhood friend of the great couturier himself, Malle inherited the idea that perfume can be a true object of luxury, so timeless that it becomes a companion of life. His mother, herself artistic director of Parfums Christian Dior, passed on to him her love for perfumes and her uncompromising vision of creation, as well as her sense of elegance applied to all areas of life. At the age of 20, Malle flew to New York to study Art History at New York University. In the great maelstrom of Manhattan, he developed his taste personal unique, combining design, architecture and contemporary art. A collector since the age of twenty-four, he has always sought to cultivate and stimulate his eye for the exceptional and to develop connections between the senses. At Laboratoires Roure, where for many years he worked alongside the greatest noses, he became an expert in formulation and raw materials, with a full understanding of the technical aspects of perfume construction and the ability to work with perfumers to bring a creation to its full maturity. The combination of Malle's culture, his aesthetic sense and his olfactory memory laid the foundation for his holistic vision. A vision that flows into Editions de Parfums.
With this Maison, Frédéric Malle is committed to defending at all costs an author perfumery, free and unique, in which, as a point of honour, each nose is valued as an artist in its own right. The Maison is the result of Frédéric Malle's determination to defend perfumery and restore it to its former glory. He is one of the first who dares to turn his back on convention to give perfumery back its freedom and creativity. This approach is appreciated by the world of perfumery, which sees Malle as a defender of its artistic values. Like a literary publisher, a patron, an enlightened accomplice who listens to his authors and speaks to them in the same language, Frédéric Malle urges his perfumers to create their best works. New classics such as Portrait of a Lady, Musc Ravageur and French Lover have succeeded in relaunching the idea of contemporary art of olfaction, offering men and women an accessory worthy of their personality and their desire for seduction. This unique approach translates into an eclectic range of perfumes with the most diverse personalities: a collection that embraces all styles and olfactory families, revolutionises them, revisits the classics with a modern twist and ventures into unexplored territories.
A master of his craft, Frédéric Malle is one of the few people able to understand perfumery, because he knows every aspect of it inside out: from creation, composition, production and packaging design to shop design and communication. Esthetic convinced, Frédéric Malle continues to nourish the brand he has created, and the perfumes he helps to develop, with the rich and sophisticated artistic culture that has been his everyday world since childhood, from Saint-Germain-des-Prés to New York via London. To enter the world of Frédéric Malle means to cultivate your freedom and your style, to find the perfume that expresses one's singularity, resonates with one's deepest self and becomes a signature of one's identity.
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