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Plate M-35 · 468 stores · 301–450 of 468 · curated ORBIS register

Siesta Labo. makes soaps and bath products using natural ingredients, including materials sourced in Hokkaido for its workshop's range. Tamburins Dosan pairs fragrance with sculptural bottles and an exhibition-style setting at the Korean brand's Dosan Park location. Tamburins Seongsu provides another branch setting for perfume testing and skincare, with art installations and sculptural displays shaping the Seongsu space.

What makes great perfumers & apothecaries?

This plate lists 468 shops in 71 countries. Paris has the most with 92, followed by London with 18. Among these shops, 16 describe made-to-order work and 20 sell online, going by their own descriptions.

Ask for the concentration: eau de parfum and eau de toilette are priced differently, so compare the same concentration and bottle size.

Ask for a sample first: wear it for a day before buying a full bottle, and ask whether a refill or smaller size exists.

Ask where it can be sent: fragrance often travels under shipping restrictions, so confirm delivery to your country before you order.

A multi-brand perfumery lets you compare houses side by side. Senteurs d'Ailleurs lists brands including Amouage, Byredo and Diptyque, at its Place Stéphanie boutique in Brussels and a second shop in Waterloo.

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Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.

Seoul

Athis-Seoul makes natural fragrance goods in Seoul, including reed diffusers, room and car sprays, essential oils, hand creams and all-natural Korean-style incense sticks packaged in an eco-friendly box. The company, DAON INTERNATIONAL, is based in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, and is represented by Danbi Kim.

Best for Natural korean incense and fragrance

Seoul / Online

Seoul fragrance house founded in 2022 by Jun Lim, a former investment banker and longtime perfume collector; grew from about €200,000 in sales in 2022 to more than €20 million by 2024, with stock at Harrods, Printemps and Dover Street Market Ginza.

Best for Provocative Seoul perfume and onggi-aged extrait

Seoul

A family-run incense manufacturer now in its second generation, making incense sticks in scents such as sandalwood, plum blossom, lotus and orchid through grinding, dough mixing, forming, drying and cutting, and producing OEM/ODM incense for other brands.

Best for Handmade incense sticks and incense sets

Apgujeong, Gangnam, Seoul

Tamburins' Dosan Park location — the original flagship that launched the brand. Sculptural perfume bottles, art-gallery interiors, and the viral Hand Cream that started it all.

Best for Sculptural perfume bottles, art-gallery interiors

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · South KoreaORBIS register

Seongsu, Seoul

Korea's most Instagram-fragrance and skincare brand. Their Seongsu flagship is a multi-sensory experience — art installations, perfume testing bars, and sculptural product displays. Every corne.

Best for Korean fragrance, hand creams and design-led skincare

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · South KoreaORBIS register

Sinsa, Gangnam, Seoul

Tamburins' original Sinsa location — the brand that made Korean fragrance a global phenomenon. Sculptural perfume bottles, art-gallery interiors, and scents that capture Korean seasons.

Best for Sculptural perfume bottles and Korean-season-inspired fragrances

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · South KoreaORBIS register

Sharjah / United Arab Emirates

Nabeel was founded in Yemen in 1969 by Asghar Adam Ali Al Attar, and moved its manufacturing to the UAE in 1992 with a factory in Sharjah; within five years the company had opened five outlets across Dubai, Sharjah, and Abu Dhabi.

Best for Oud, oudh chips and bakhoor

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · United Arab EmiratesORBIS register

Siena / Italy

Farmacia del Campo has served Siena's central Piazza del Campo since the 1800s, run by three pharmacist-owners who stock homeopathic, dermocosmetic, and dietary products alongside prescription medicine. The historic pharmacy also runs an online shop for its cosmetic and wellness lines.

Best for Apothecary & Wellness, Pharmacy, Cosmetics

Byredo

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Stockholm / Online

Stockholm fragrance house founded 2006 by Ben Gorham with perfumer Jerome Epinette. Known for minimalist bottles and memory-driven scents such as Gypsy Water and Bal d'Afrique, built around understated compositions from high-quality raw materials.

Best for Scandi-clean modern classics.

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Created in collaboration with master perfumers / manufactured to the highest standardsORBIS register

Scandinavia / Online

Stockholm-based perfume house - not Oslo - founded by actress Noomi Rapace with Ash Pournouri, Steve Terry and Jonas Nilsson; unisex layering fragrances developed with Givaudan perfumers.

Best for Numbered fragrance facets of Nordic minimalism from this Oslo niche perfumery

The Strand Arcade, Sydney

Scent and tableware meet in objects such as borosilicate incense holders, carafes and coloured drinking glasses. Care guidance is unusually practical, covering dishwasher use and soaps that can damage the glass.

Best for Candles, incense and glassware

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · FranceORBIS register

Jaffa Flea Market, Tel Aviv

A perfumery selling house-blended fragrances, bespoke scent consultations, soaps, candles, diffusers, and body-care products. Perfumer Erez Rozen develops the fragrances and works from the Old Jaffa store with his wife and business partner Lea.

Best for Perfumery selling house-blended fragrances, bespoke scent consultations, soaps, candles, diffusers

Toronto / Canada / Online

Founded in Toronto in 2013 by Victor Wong, Zoologist works with independent perfumers to translate animal habitats and behaviours into imaginative scents. Bat, Beaver and Elephant belong to a deliberately idiosyncratic collection built as complete olfactory worlds rather than a conventional house signature.

Best for Animal-inspired independent perfumery, from Bat's tropical cave to Elephant's green woods

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Canadian indie perfumery with fragrances crafted by guest perfumers worldwideORBIS register

Turin, Italy / Online

Antonio Gardoni is an Italian architect who became a perfumer, creating fragrances of extraordinary complexity under his Bogue label.

Best for Italian architect turned perfumer — MAAI, Cologne Reloaded (100+ ingredients).

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Handcrafted in Turin by Antonio GardoniORBIS register

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.

Best for White Moss and wooden brushes.

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Made in TrevisoORBIS register

Old Town, Vilnius

Aromatų Sodas in Vilnius sells niche perfumery, home fragrance such as stick and spray diffusers and scented candles made from soy wax, and hair care including shampoos and conditioners. It has offered perfumes and home fragrances imported from France and Italy since 2013, including the Danhera and Profumo di Firenze brands.

Best for Niche perfumes, home fragrance diffusers, and candles

Cuba Street

Wellington Apothecary handcrafts plant-based skincare, herbal teas, and tonics in Wellington, New Zealand. Founded by herbalists Jemma Scott, Laura Jansen, and Chantal Cropp in 2014, it also runs a naturopathy clinic and workshops.

Best for Wellington Apothecary handcrafts plant-based skincare, herbal teas, and tonics in Wellington

City centre, Zagreb

Xenia Design is a fashion and textile design studio led by Ksenija Vrbanić, producing seasonal collections such as SS 2026 Couture and FW 25/26. The studio also produces a line of perfumes called XD Perfumes.

Best for Seasonal couture collections and signature perfumes

Online

Zurich niche perfume house founded in 2007 by perfumer Vero Kern, known for the extraits Onda, Kiki and Rubj; Kern died in 2018, and the brand has continued under longtime distributor Campomarzio70.

Best for Cult artistic extraits.

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Handcrafted in Zurich in extremely small batchesORBIS register

Marciana Marina, Elba Island, Italy

Acqua dell’Elba makes perfumes, body products and home fragrance inspired by Elba’s marine landscape. Testing in person helps compare its citrus, aromatic and woody interpretations rather than choosing by island story alone.

Best for Elba-made Mediterranean fragrances and island perfumery

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Crafted on Elba using Mediterranean marine notes and island botanicalsORBIS register

Piazza San Donato, Civita di Bagnoregio

Founded by three siblings on Piazza San Donato, this maker produces natural fragrances, soaps, candles and cosmetics inspired by Civita, including lines built on donkey milk and botanical extracts. Its products are made in Italy and sold from a boutique on the village square as well as online.

Best for Natural fragrances, soaps and cosmetics

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Civita di Bagnoregio / ItalyORBIS register

Ambika Herbals

Hidden Gem

N Park Avenue

A small herbal apothecary and massage studio producing handmade salves, lotions and tinctures from botanical ingredients. Its skincare line is stocked in local shops and made on the premises.

Best for Handmade herbal skincare

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Breckenridge / ColoradoORBIS register

Duval Street & Mallory Square, Old Town

This locally founded fragrance boutique names its unisex scents after Florida Keys islands, Islamorada, Marquesas, and Tortugas among them, and formulates them alongside a line of hand-poured candles, body scrubs, and soaps sold at its two Old Town storefronts. The shop also teaches perfume-making classes for visitors who want to build a custom scent before they leave.

Best for Unisex perfumes named for the Florida Keys, plus perfume-making classes

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Key West / FloridaORBIS register

Grasse, France / Online

A Grasse-based house that combines haute perfumery with gold leaf. Each Atelier des Ors fragrance contains actual 24k gold leaf suspended in the juice, visible through the bottle.

Best for Modern art objects

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Crafted in Grasse using the finest raw materials and real 24k goldORBIS register

Aix-en-Provence / Online

Bastide offers soaps, hand creams, body care, candles and fragrance presented through a polished Provençal identity. Its gift sets make it easy to combine scent and bath products without building a selection individually.

Best for Provençal soaps, hand creams, and candles from Aix-en-Provence

Minsk

Bellavka is an online store offering women's, men's and children's clothing and accessories from more than 450 Belarusian brands, plus perfumery, cosmetics and home goods. Sizes range from 40 to 80, including a dedicated plus-size collection.

Best for Belarusian designer clothing

Toulouse / Online

Berdoues makes colognes, eaux de parfum and body care from its Toulouse base. The range includes accessible scent gifts and more concentrated compositions, making in-person testing useful before purchase.

Best for Colognes and eaux de parfum in French pharmacy style from Toulouse

Thailand / Online

Dmitry Bortnikoff's natural perfumery — 100% natural compositions using the rarest oud, ambergris, and musk. The purest expression of natural luxury fragrance.

Best for 100% natural, rare oud, and the purest expression of natural perfumery.

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · ThailandORBIS register

Boss

Metzingen, Germany

Boss offers tailored clothing, business casualwear, footwear and fragrance across a large international network. Consistent fits and coordinated collections make the brand practical for assembling office wardrobes in one place.

Best for Precision polos, German; German precision, suits; structured German business suiting

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Made in Germany / Turkey / EuropeORBIS register

Catalonia, Spain / Online

Bravanariz is a Catalan house that creates fragrances inspired by the landscapes of the Mediterranean coast.

Best for Natural Mediterranean perfumes and olfactory experiences

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Handcrafted in Catalonia using wild-foraged Mediterranean botanicalsORBIS register

Call of the Valley

Hidden Gem

Bandra West (Pali Village) / Online

India-inspired fragrance house creating natural perfume oils and scents around sandalwood, flowers and other Indian materials. The current roll-on range includes White Ginger Lily blended with sandalwood.

Best for Natural perfume oils of sandalwood and vetiver, with oud and jasmine

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · IndiaORBIS register

Normandy / Online

Carrière Frères focuses on Botanical sibling of Trudon, single-plant candles poured in the same Normandy manufacture. Production is associated with Poured in the Trudon manufacture, Normandy, France, while the range centers on botanical candles and natural home scent.

Best for Botanical candles and natural home scent.

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Poured in the Trudon manufacture / Normandy / FranceORBIS register

La Samaritaine / Pont-Neuf

French spa and skincare brand offering treatments inspired by global beauty rituals, including the Japanese-rooted Ko Bi Do lifting massage. Signature products include Eau Égyptienne fragrance and the Géto Suprême anti-aging cream.

Best for Signature products include Eau Égyptienne fragrance and the Géto Suprême anti-aging cream

Mahe, Victoria

Coco de Mer Collection processes coco de mer nuts, which fall naturally from wild trees after 6-9 years, at a factory built in 2000 on former colonial plantation land in the Domaine de Val des Pres craft village in Au Cap, Mahe, Seychelles, on the site of a 1920s cinnamon kiln. It sells whole nuts and bowls priced $250-$750, plus processed kernels and, through a sister company, perfumes and cosmetics made from the husks.

Best for Coco de mer nuts and perfume

Downtown (Adolphus Hotel) / Online

Commerce Goods + Supply is a lifestyle shop inside the Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, combining local makers with international goods. Its selection extends from clothing to apothecary products, with artisan pieces presented alongside everyday essentials. The shop describes its assortment through curator Christine Visneau's choices, rather than as a single maker's own production.

Best for Clothing and artisan gifts inside the Adolphus Hotel

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · USAORBIS register

Kelaat M'Gouna, Dades Valley

Founded in 2016, this farmer cooperative cultivates Rosa damascena across roughly 60 hectares of the Dades valley and processes the harvest into essential oil, hydrosols and dried rose buds. Based in Kelaat M'Gouna, it makes rose-based cosmetic and culinary products and exhibits at Morocco's Meknes agricultural fair.

Best for Rose essential oil, hydrosol and dried roses

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Kelaat M'Gouna / MoroccoORBIS register

Centro / Online

Coqui Coqui Perfumería in Mérida's Centro hand-mixes fragrances, spa products, and home goods inside a converted colonial house, drawing on founder Nicolás Malleville's background in botany. Its scents are organized into collections tied to specific landscapes, including the Yucatán Peninsula and the Riviera dei Fiori, with each bottle measured, mixed, and packaged by hand.

Best for Yucatán-inspired perfumes and spa gifts

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · MexicoORBIS register

Mérida

Coqui Coqui makes fragrances such as eau de parfum, perfumed oils and room diffusers, handmade in Valladolid, alongside gastronomic items like chocolate, vanilla and honey from the Yucatán Peninsula. The company also sells handcrafted textiles and ceramics after more than a decade perfecting traditional perfumery techniques.

Best for Handmade yucatan perfumes and crafts

Cotswold Perfumery

Hidden Gem

Victoria Street, Bourton-on-the-Water

Established in 1966 in a Grade II-listed former garage on Victoria Street, this perfumery blends and bottles its fragrances on the premises under chief perfumer John Stephen. It sells its own English perfumes and colognes and runs residential courses teaching the craft of fragrance creation.

Best for English-made perfumes and fragrance courses

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Bourton-on-the-Water / EnglandORBIS register

Cambodia

Crassna Khmer takes its name from Aquilaria crassna, the agarwood species native to Cambodia's forests and the source of what buyers have long called simply "Cambodian" oud.

Best for Cambodian-grown Aquilaria crassna oud oil, powder, and coreless incense sticks

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · CambodiaORBIS register

Timișoara / Romania

Dacic Soap makes natural bar soaps and personal-care products by hand in Timișoara, drawing on traditional recipes for scents like saffron and activated charcoal. Orders ship from its Galileo Galilei street workshop through a straightforward online shop.

Best for Dacic Soap makes natural bar soaps and personal-care products by hand

Apt, Luberon, Provence

Five generations of the Agnel family have distilled lavender and aromatic plants near Apt since 1895. The distillery makes and sells essential oils, floral waters, cosmetics and aromatherapy products, and opens for visits and a shop.

Best for Provençal lavender essential oils, floral waters and cosmetics

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Apt / Luberon / FranceORBIS register

Provence / Online

Durance sells candles, room sprays, soaps, skincare and fragrance shaped around Provençal scent references. Coordinated fragrance families let shoppers match home and body products without relying on mixed-brand layering.

Best for Lavender-country candles, room sprays, and skincare from Provence

East Coast Glow

Hidden Gem

Bonavista

East Coast Glow is a natural apothecary in Bonavista making plant-based bar soaps, sea-salt bath bombs and balms with wildcrafted island botanicals such as fir needle and fireweed and distillations of pure iceberg water. Founders Karen and Roger run the line as a refillable, mail-back-for-recycling operation rooted in Newfoundland ingredients.

Best for Handmade Newfoundland soap and skincare

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Newfoundland and LabradorORBIS register

Macgillivray

Started from scratch in 1991 by a family that built the business with their three children, Emu Ridge remains the only eucalyptus oil distillery in South Australia. Its farm-gate shop sells pure eucalyptus and emu oil plus work from more than twenty local artisans, and visitors can watch the steam distillation process firsthand.

Best for Eucalyptus oil, emu oil, distillery tours

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Kangaroo Island / South AustraliaORBIS register

Online

Erbario Toscano translates Tuscan botanicals into fragrance, body care and gifts. Eau de parfum and olive-oil skincare anchor the range, with production associated with Tuscany rather than a generic international beauty assortment.

Best for Tuscan-scented gifts.

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Made in TuscanyORBIS register

Online

Fresh sells skincare, masks, lip care and fragrance built around ingredient-led narratives and sensorial textures. Sampling is useful for choosing among formulas, especially its Sugar lip and Soy cleanser ranges.

Best for Sugar lip classics.

Rue de la Paix, Grasse, France

The most perfumery school in the world. Founded in 1946 by Jean Carles (one of the greatest perfumers of the 20th century), the Givaudan Perfumery School in Grasse accepts only 3-5 student.

Best for Only 3-5 students per year — 3 years, 3,000+ raw materials

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Founded by Jean Carles in Grasse in 1946ORBIS register

Sullivan’s Island / United States

GOLDBUG is a jewelry and fashion boutique on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, selling handmade jewelry by owner Ashley Reid Martin alongside apparel, apothecary goods and gifts from dozens of independent designers. The shop recently opened a second location in Mount Pleasant at 1419 Ben Sawyer Boulevard.

Best for Jewelry and gift boutique

Brazil / Online

Granado’s shops arrange soaps, colognes, talcs and body care in apothecary-style packaging. The catalogue distinguishes heritage fragrance lines from practical pharmacy-derived care, making compact gifts easy to assemble.

Best for Heritage Brazilian soaps, lotions, and fragrances in vintage-inspired packaging.

Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France

The world's perfume capital since the 16th century. Its International Perfume Museum — 3,500 square metres built into a sixteenth-century rampart — traces perfume from raw materials to trade and design.

Best for Grasse perfume heritage and fragrance materials

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · The finest natural raw materials for perfumery grown and processed in GrasseORBIS register

Online

All-natural perfume line founded in 2013 by self-taught Canadian perfumer Hiram Green; fragrances are built from essential oils, absolutes and resins and rested at least three months before bottling. Hyde won the 2019 Art & Olfaction Artisan Award.

Best for Natural tuberose mastery.

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Handmade in Gouda using only natural raw materialsORBIS register

Corsica / Online

Imiza offers Corsican-inspired skincare, body oils and fragrance built around island botanicals and scent references. Buyers should compare ingredient lists and product type rather than assuming every item is locally manufactured.

Best for Corsican natural skincare, body oils, and island-inspired fragrance

Staré Město

An independent niche perfumery and beauty store carrying selective fragrance, skincare and grooming houses. Founded in 2012, the shop now operates from Vězeňská Street in Prague’s Old Town.

Best for Niche fragrance, skincare and grooming on Prague's Vězeňská Street

Bamburi Beach, Mombasa

Jua Range sells furniture, art, lighting and candles made with timber, live-edge wood and Kenyan fragrance ingredients, led by designer and creative director Chris Canaan. It has three Mombasa stores - Bamburi, Nyali and the Promenade Mall - and a live-edge table console is priced at KSH34,900.

Best for Live-edge wood furniture and candles

Front Street / Simonton Street, Old Town

Joe Liszka and Frank Romano started formulating aloe vera skincare in 1971 after arriving in Key West and discovering the plant soothed their sunburns, building the line into sunscreens, lotions, and fragrances still sold under the family-founded brand. The company's tropical scents and aloe-based body care have remained a fixture of Old Town storefronts for more than fifty years.

Best for Aloe vera skincare and tropical fragrances developed in Key West since 1971

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Key West / FloridaORBIS register

Tasmania

Killara Distillery is a boutique distillery with a cellar door at 32 Ogilvie Lane, Richmond, Tasmania, producing single malt whisky, Apothecary gin and liqueurs. The site describes it as continuing a family legacy of award-winning whisky and spirits.

Best for Tasmanian single malt whisky and gin

Kyse

Online

Small-batch, gourmand-leaning perfume house made by Terri Bozzo, a nutrition scientist by training, near Santa Cruz, California; named Kyse for her two sons, Kyle and Sean, and known for scents like debut fragrance Sucre et Fleurs.

Best for Cozy gourmand vanillas.

Online

L'Erbolario has made plant-based cosmetics in Lodi since 1978, when Franco Bergamaschi and Daniela Villa opened a small herbalist shop with a laboratory behind it. Every stage of production stays in Italy. The company became a Benefit Corporation in 2021 and publishes a yearly Impact Report. Face and body care sit alongside hair care and home fragrance, and there is a men's range, all sold in its own and franchised shops and online.

Best for Herbal Italian bodycare gifts.

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Made in Lodi / ItalyORBIS register

Varberg

L:A Bruket makes soaps, skincare and home fragrance shaped by Sweden’s west coast, including seaweed-led products. Refills and scent families make the range practical for coordinated bath and home purchases.

Best for Swedish seaweed soaps and spa scents from Varberg

Moya, Anjouan / Comoros

At Moya on Anjouan, this distillery works with more than 350 local producers and puts roughly a hundred tonnes of ylang flowers a year through fuel-efficient stills, replanting as it burns. Since 2016 it has quietly become the island's model for doing perfume's rawest material right.

Best for Ylang-ylang oil from 350 island growers

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Anjouan / ComorosORBIS register

Tossa De Mar / Spain

This family-run soap maker has sold vegetable and natural soaps and home fragrances from two shops in Tossa de Mar since opening in April 2014: La Maison de Charlotte on Avenida Costa Brava and Bombolles de Sabó on the corner of La Guardia and San Telmo. Products are also listed for sale through the site's online shop pages.

Best for Vegetable and natural soaps and home fragrances from two Tossa de Mar shops since 2014

Vientiane / Laos

Lao Agar International Development signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Lao PDR in 1998 and brought its factory on Dongkhamxang Road in Vientiane into operation the following year, making it one of the country's earliest formal agarwood enterprises.

Best for Lao mai ketsana agarwood oil and incense from a government-partnered

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · LaosORBIS register

Luberon / Provence / Online

Le Château du Bois centres on lavender essential oil, soaps, skincare and scented gifts from the Luberon. Product format and concentration help distinguish practical aromatherapy uses from simple fragrance souvenirs.

Best for Lavender essential oils, soaps, and sachets from Luberon fields

Online

Independent Florentine perfumer Lorenzo Villoresi founded his house in 1990 in his family's 15th-century palazzo on the Arno, drawing on research trips through the Middle East; he won the Prix François Coty in 2006 and opened Florence's Perfume Museum in 2018.

Best for Bespoke Florentine perfumery.

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Created in FlorenceORBIS register

St Lucia / Online

Losyon Sent Lisi is a small-batch Saint Lucian perfume brand selling floral, aquatic, and green-note fragrances inspired by the island through its own online shop. Its scents are also carried at Saint Lucia hotels and resorts including Anse Chastanet, Jade Mountain, and Ladera, alongside its direct-to-consumer store.

Best for Perfumery, Fragrance

Provence / Grasse / Online

Provencal soap and home-fragrance maker tracing back to 1920, when Joséphine and Nestor Mouranchon began growing and distilling lavender near Grasse. Their grandchildren, Denis and Dominique Vogade, built the modern Lothantique brand on the family's original formulas.

Best for Provence soaps, candles, and room sprays

Loto del Sur

Hidden Gem

Usaquén / Online

Loto del Sur is a Bogotá house for natural botanical soaps, creams, scents with Colombian-inspired packaging. Founded in 1999; Made in Colombia.

Best for Natural botanical soaps, creams, scents with Colombian-inspired packaging

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · ColombiaORBIS register

Salalah / Oman

Luban Dhofar Frankincense Distillation was established in 2010 under owner Saleh Alaamri, who set up a dedicated distillation plant in Salalah, in Oman's Dhofar region — close enough to the Boswellia sacra tree's native mountain habitat that the resin reaches the still while still fresh, before a long supply chain can cost it the volatile compounds that carry its scent.

Best for Stainless-steel-distilled frankincense oil and hydrosol from a 2010-founded Salalah plant

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · OmanORBIS register

Lucia Apothecary

Hidden Gem

West Village

Lucia Apothecary blends its own bath and body line in Cambria, with 19 signature fragrances named for Central Coast landmarks and made without sulfates or parabens in California. The Main Street shop sells soaps, lotions, candles and perfumes alongside cards and gifts.

Best for California-made soaps, lotions and signature scents

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · California / USAORBIS register

Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Provence, France

Maison Godet is a Côte d’Azur perfume house for niche fragrances, discovery sets, and Riviera scent gifts.

Best for Riviera summer style, sandals, linen, swim, and resortwear.

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Saint-Tropez / Online

Maison ST offers perfumes, candles and home scent shaped around a Saint-Tropez identity. Testing in person matters because the range moves between beachy, floral and woody interpretations of the Riviera.

Best for Saint-Tropez perfumes, candles, and beachy home scents for Riviera gifting.

Merz Apothecary

Hidden Gem

Lincoln Square

Founded in 1875 by Swiss immigrant Peter Merz and run by the Trotta family since 1972, this Lincoln Square apothecary marked its 150th year in 2025 stocking European soaps, herbal tinctures, homeopathic remedies, and hard-to-find grooming goods. Its wooden cabinets hold thousands of natural and imported personal-care products gathered from around the world.

Best for Natural remedies and imported soaps

Online

Niche perfume house founded in 2004 by perfumer Mona di Orio with partner Jeroen Oude Sogtoen, built on di Orio's sixteen-year apprenticeship under Edmond Roudnitska in Cabris, near Grasse, France. Di Orio died in 2011; Oude Sogtoen continues the house.

Best for Chiaroscuro vanillas.

Online

Niche perfume house founded in 2007 by Puglia-born perfumer Alessandro Gualtieri, formerly a nose for Fendi, Versace, Helmut Lang and Diesel. Its 2009 release Black Afgano, an oud-based scent, became a cult bestseller that regularly sells out.

Best for Cult concentrated extraits.

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Italian avant-garde perfumery of the highest concentrationORBIS register

Shela, Lamu Island, Kenya

The brand grows moringa and other botanicals on its own farm in Lamu and turns them into soaps, oils, balms and solid perfumes, a business its founders describe as growing "from sandy soil to skincare success." A treatment studio and retail counter sit on Lamu Island in Shela, alongside sister outlets in Nairobi, Mombasa and Malindi.

Best for Moringa-based soaps, oils and solid perfumes

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Lamu / KenyaORBIS register

263 Adam Stander Drive, Victoria Falls

Ndau Collection makes jewellery, adornments, fragrance and collectibles using precious metals, gemstones, rare African trade beads, leathers and found materials. Skilled artisans create each piece, according to the brand's website.

Best for African trade bead jewellery

Squamish / Canada

Nootka and Sea is a Squamish apothecary and home goods shop making its own natural skincare, candles, and aromatherapy mists inspired by the West Coast since founder Mikki Bernier started the business in 2013. The cozy neighborhood shop sells in-store and online, including local flower arrangements and gift boxes.

Best for House-made natural skincare, candles and aromatherapy mists

Online

French perfume house tracing to 1720, when Fargeon Aine became perfumer to the court of Louis XV; the maison closed in the 1940s and was revived in 2012 by Franck Belaiche and Hugo Lambert, recreating historic formulas from archival research.

Best for Time-capsule court perfumes.

Online

Orto Parisi is the fragrance project of Alessandro Gualtieri. He dedicates it to his grandfather Vincenzo Parisi and the garden he fertilised with buckets from the house. Its manifesto holds that the body is experienced like a garden and that its smells mirror the soul. The line runs from Seminalis and Boccanera to Brutus, Stercus, Megamare and Risvelium. It sells through the brand's own online store with free samples and a limit of three bottles per fragrance.

Best for Visceral artistic perfumery.

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Italian avant-garde perfumery exploring the body's natural scentsORBIS register

Da’an / Yongkang Street

P.Seven develops perfumes around Taiwanese tea, forests and place-specific scent memories. The Yongkang concept store lets visitors smell the compositions directly and compare concentrations before committing to a bottle.

Best for Tea- and forest-inspired scents from a Taiwanese perfume house's Yongkang concept store

United Kingdom / Online

Liz Moores began blending perfumes in 2010; Papillon's first three fragrances were Anubis, Tobacco Rose and Angélique, and the debut collection reached Les Senteurs in 2014. The British independent house still makes small-batch, androgynous perfumes with classical methods and an emphasis on rare materials.

Best for Liz Moores perfumes: Anubis, Tobacco Rose, Dryad, and Hera

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Handcrafted in London by Liz Moores using the finest raw materialsORBIS register

Online

Plisson 1808 is a French shaving house whose brushes and razors are handmade in its Brittany ateliers, drawing on more than two centuries of manufacture. The online shop carries badger and synthetic brushes, safety and straight razors, soaps, men's skincare and its 1808 fragrance collection.

Best for Shaving, grooming, brushmaking

Perugia / Italy

Profumi di Perugia is a perfumery in Perugia's historic center where master perfumer Carlo Sargenti crafts custom scents and home fragrances using holistic blending techniques. The shop sells eau de parfum sets, personalized fragrances, and olfactory experiences both in-store and through its online shop.

Best for Perfumery, Custom Perfume, Home Fragrance, Eau de Parfum

Suva, Viti Levu

Founded in Suva, Pure Fiji cold-presses coconut, dilo, macadamia and sikeci oils sourced from village growers into sugar scrubs, bath oils and lotions. The range carries South Pacific scent traditions and ships from a Fijian factory that supplies spas worldwide.

Best for Coconut and dilo body oils, spa gift sets

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · FijiORBIS register

Taif / Online

This Taif-based perfumery sells rose oil, rose water, perfumes and soaps distilled from the region’s Taif roses through its physical and online shops. The business also lists a “Rose Vibe” location with huts and a cafe, and accepts orders by phone and WhatsApp for customers beyond the storefront and the factory’s local retail setting.

Best for Rose oil and perfume factory

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High Street, Burford

A working pharmacy trading since 1734, still dispensing from the High Street. Alongside prescriptions it sells its own-label toiletries, fragrances and skincare in traditional apothecary style.

Best for Heritage apothecary and own-label toiletries

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · United KingdomORBIS register

Québec City

Rituels is a Québec-made men’s grooming brand with natural, handcrafted products spanning shaving, beard care and fragrance.

Best for Quebec men's grooming and fragrance

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Online / Katonah

Robert Piguet Parfums keeps alive a French perfume house dating to 1944, home to the tuberose landmark Fracas alongside Bandit, Oud Delice and others. Its official online boutique ships fragrances, extraits, candles and gift coffrets, with free shipping over $75 and complimentary samples.

Best for Fracas, Bandit and classic French fragrances, extraits and candles

Grasse, France / Global

Robertet supplies natural raw materials used in perfumery from its base in Grasse. The range centers on natural fragrance ingredients and perfumery materials, with production described as sourced and processed in Grasse from the world's selected growing regions.

Best for Natural fragrance ingredients and perfumery materials

⚒ Perfumers & Apothecaries · Sourced and processed in Grasse from the world's finest growing regionsORBIS register

Punta Gorda

At Fishermen's Village in Punta Gorda, Route Florida stocks Florida-inspired clothing, shark-tooth jewelry, and home scents, with 95% of its goods sourced from small and Florida-based businesses. The brick-and-mortar shop also runs a full online store shipping across the US.

Best for Gifts & Home, Florida-Inspired Apparel

Positano / Italy

Sapori e Profumi di Positano has run the self-styled 'Lemon Shop' from Via dei Mulini in Positano since 1986, turning its own untreated lemons into limoncello, candies, soaps and home fragrances. The shop also sells hand-painted ceramics and San Leucio silk bags, both in-store and online.

Best for Food, Home Fragrance, Ceramics

Siem Reap / Cambodia

Senteurs d'Angkor has employed local artisans to hand-make natural cosmetics, candles, and Kampot pepper foods at its Siem Reap workshop since 1999. The open-daily workshop sells directly to visitors and ships worldwide through its online shop, with a tropical garden and DIY craft activities on site.

Best for Beauty & Home Fragrance, Natural Cosmetics, Handmade

India

Makes alcohol-free attars and pure oud oils by hydro-distillation in the classic Indian-Arabian perfumery tradition, a business the site says was founded in 1937. Works with oud, sandalwood oil and rare botanicals across attars, bakhoor and oud sticks.

Best for Alcohol free attars and oud oils