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Grasse: Where Perfume Still Begins
Published · 1 min read · ORBIS Editorial
May rose and jasmine still come off these hillsides into absolutes worth more than silver by weight.
“You cannot buy Grasse in Grasse alone — its harvest hides inside half the great bottles in this atlas.”
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- Acca Kappa Treviso / Online
Grooming and fragrance house founded 1869 near Treviso by German bristle merchant Hermann Krüll, who began in Venice trading bristles before entering brush manufacturing; historically brush supplier to the British Royal Family, it launched its first fragrance, White Moss, in 1997. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acqua di Parma Parma / Online
Italian Eau de Cologne house founded in 1916, centered on Colonia’s signature bergamot-citrus profile and the brand’s distinctive Parma-yellow presentation. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acqua di Stresa Stresa / Online
Perfumery founded in 2002 in Stresa, on Lake Maggiore in Piedmont, by Giovanni Castelli and Andrea Patrucco, with fragrances built around the lake's flowers - lemon, olive, camellia, azalea, magnolia. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aedes de Venustas 16A Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York / Online
Founded by Karl Bradl and Robert Gerstner in New York’s West Village in 1995, Aedes was created as a perfumery dedicated to exclusive, artisanal scents and became an early destination for hard-to-find niche fragrance. Since 2018 it has operated at 16A Orchard Street on the Lower East Side, carrying perfume, incense, candles, home fragrance and body products. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aesop Melbourne / Worldwide / Online
Melbourne's apothecary-design skincare — Resurrection hand balm and interiors worth the visit. Rechristened Aesop in 1989 after the Greek fabulist — both because Emeis sounded like an established beauty brand and to mock cosmetics puffery. L Oreal completed the acquisition in August 2023 for A$3.7 billion. store page → · open in the atlas →