Founded in 1989 in Paris by Patricia de Nicolaï - herself a classically trained “nose,” great‑granddaughter of Pierre Guerlain, and a trailblazer as one of the first women to launch her own house - Nicolai Parfumeur Createur embodies an auteur’s vision of perfumery.
Since then, the house has earned a sterling reputation in niche perfumery: its fragrances are both luminous and elegant, appealing instantly to lovers of classic fragrances with an immediate and universal charm. Her creations are tasteful and belong to a traditional French mould: structured scents with distinct progressions into the drydown, always balanced and natural-smelling with an emphasis on quality raw materials. Refinement, elevation, alchemy - in a few words.
- Elegant and refined French perfumery: multi-award winning and highly praised.
- The first female perfumer in the world to create her own fragrance house - a boundary-breaking spirit, redefining the codes of niche perfumery - with independence and vision.
- The icons of the house includes: the well-composed New York, exciting spicy charge of Cuir Cuba, the gentle happiness of Fig Tea, and the bold Patchouli.
- Fragrance critic Luca Turin on New York: "It is one of the greatest masculines ever, and probably the one I would save if the house burned down. Reader, I wore it for a decade".
