Parfumeur · Paris · Depuis 2014
Maison Solenne
Four fragrances, composed slowly in a Marais atelier and bottled in batches of three hundred.
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We do not chase the season. A composition stays on the bench for two years, sometimes four, until it stops asking for anything more. Then it leaves the rue de Poitou — never before.
Camille Arnaud, fondatrice
La Collection
Four scents
Eau de parfum, 18–22% concentration, filled by hand.
Fragrance en vedette
Figue Noire
Built from the memory of a fig tree in a courtyard on rue Debelleyme — leaves bruised by rain, fruit split open in late August heat, and the dry cedar of the bench beneath it. Green at the first breath, milky at the second, quiet for hours after.
10 ml
Travel refill
€48
50 ml
Eau de parfum
€165
100 ml
Eau de parfum
€245
Matières premières
Three houses we buy from, and no others
Grasse, France
Jasmine Grandiflorum
Picked before six in the morning, when the flower still holds its indolic weight. Twelve thousand blossoms for a single kilo of absolute.
Florence, Italy
Iris Pallida
Rhizomes rested three years in the dark before grinding — the patience that gives orris its powdered, suede-like hush.
Les Cayes, Haiti
Vetiver Racine
Roots washed, sun-dried, then steam distilled slowly. Smoke, grapefruit peel and damp earth in the same breath.
Le Parfumeur
“A fragrance should feel remembered rather than announced. If someone can name every note, I have been too loud.”
Camille Arnaud
Born in Montpellier, Camille trained at ISIPCA in Versailles before eleven years composing for other houses — the kind of work that carries no name on the bottle.
She opened Maison Solenne in 2014 in a two-room atelier off rue de Poitou, with one condition: every formula would be hers alone, and none would be rushed to a launch calendar. Four scents in twelve years is, she says, the honest pace.
Coffret Découverte
Try all four, then choose
Four 2 ml flacons in a linen-lined case, €26 — deducted in full from your first full bottle.
Our pledge: if none of the four is yours, write to us within sixty days and we refund the set entirely, samples kept.
La Boutique
14 rue de Poitou
Ring the bell on the left. Consultations last an hour and are free; we serve coffee and let the skin decide.
- Adresse
- 14 rue de Poitou, 75003 Paris
- Horaires
- Tue–Sat, 11h–19h · Sunday by appointment
- Téléphone
- +33 1 42 71 08 40