Our Story
The atelier behind
the fragrance
Élise Sève
Founder & Nose — Grasse, Provence
The founder
Grasse was always home
Élise Sève grew up three streets from the Fragonard factory, where the smell of jasmine processing was as ordinary as bread from the boulangerie. After studying at ISIPCA in Versailles and spending eight years as an assistant perfumer in Paris, she returned to Grasse in 2019 with a specific ambition: not to recreate the perfume industry's version of Provence, but to make fragrances that people from here would recognise.
"I'd been smelling lavender marketed at tourists for years," she says. "Lavender that doesn't smell like the plant at 1100 metres in August. I wanted to make Lavande Haute so that someone who's actually been to Valensole would say — yes, that's it."
The atelier
Rue de la Perfumerie, No. 14
The workshop is a converted 18th-century tannery — stone floors, high windows, and the persistent sweet-dry smell of labdanum that has soaked into the plaster over three years of production. It houses a 300-litre copper alembic for in-house distillation, and a blending room where each fragrance is composed and adjusted over multiple sessions across different seasons.
We produce in batches of 300 bottles. When a batch is exhausted, the next differs slightly — because the raw materials differ slightly. This isn't a defect. It's the point.
Our principles
What we commit to
Limited production
Each fragrance is made in batches of 300. No restocks mid-season. When a batch is gone, it is gone until the next production run.
Traceable raw materials
We publish the source, farm, and harvest year of every key ingredient. You can read this on the ingredient page. Nothing is hidden.
No synthetic musks
We use only ingredients on the IFRA positive list and avoid the polycyclic musks implicated in aquatic toxicity. Our fixatives are natural: labdanum, benzoin, ambrette seed.
"We are not trying to bottle Provence. We are trying to record a specific experience of being in it — on one afternoon, in one place."— Élise Sève
Continue the story
Read about our ingredient sourcing and distillation process.