French MaisonHenry Jacques introduces ‘Les Boites a Parfums’, a set of hand – crafted chests designed to house the maison’s treasured Classiques perfumes. The extensive range of 50 fragrances that lie at the heart of Henry Jacques give rise to the desire of creating one’s own exquisite collection; the new chests were borne to reveal and protect these flacons in a manner as unique and special as the scents that they encase.
There is a sense of grandeur in treasure chests – not only the kind that stores buried loot, but also the ones that house precious personal objects. Even in our daily lives, the act of opening a treasure box to access its cherished contents can be a luxurious ritual indeed.
French haute parfumerie Maison Henry Jacques has created ‘Les Boites à Parfums’, boxes specially intended to house its flacons of exquisite fragrances. Perfume, after all, is the most personal and intimate thing that anyone can wear: it is intended to adorn one’s bare skin, and yet can clearly be perceived by the people around the wearer. That makes the moment of putting on one’s perfume all the more special.
Henry Jacques’ new perfume chests not only add an air of refinement to your daily fragrance ritual and look beautiful when sitting on a vanity, but also safeguard delicate fragrances from the ravages of light. Exposing a perfume to sunlight would result in its degradation more quickly than if it were shielded in a cool box.
However, these fragrance boxes are not available to just anyone, and are in fact not even available for sale. Whether the collection of Les Classiques or Les Brumes was purchased in store or on Henry Jacques’ new e – shop set to launch in June, the Maison now offers these elegant padded cases free of charge with any purchase of 3, 6 or 10 perfumes. After all, they are crafted specifically to fit Henry Jacques’ crystal flacons.
‘Les Boites à Parfums’ come in three different sizes to display the fragrances, and are available in four colours: taupe, brown, beige and pink.
The box epitomises the French art of living and would look ideally at home on an elegant credanza, bathroom vanity or walk-in wardrobe. There is perhaps no better safeguard for one’s olfactory journey. After all, they say that fragrances are deeply linked to our memories – and memories certainly should be treasured like the precious cargo they are.
French Maison Henry Jacques perfumes manifest the very soul of our Maison’s founder, Henry Cremona, a world traveller who drew on his childhood, wanderlust and dreams of faraway lands to feed his deep passion for fragrance. From his encounter with one of the last great noses of the old French Perfume tradition, a perfume house was born, steeped in the family’s culture, a taste for absolute refinement, and an obsession with rarity and perfection.
A family affair, a love affair… Parfums Henry Jacques embodies nearly half a century of excellence and creativity at the service of Great Perfumery.
The Maison instinctively found its place in the universe of the discerning few and, for decades, their atelier was dedicated solely to the creation of bespoke fragrances. They discreetly worked in the shadows to satisfy the wishes of their clients. Each request was a new perfume, each one creating a new memory, reawakening a lost emotion. Within the rich artistic sphere surrounding the family, the number of creations grew with every passing year.
After long and thoughtful preparation, Henry Jacques recently opened its realm to the public, through a handful of distinguished locations around the world, each custom-designed to showcase our singular collections.
Every art has its quintessence, a form in which it cannot be better expressed or more enchanting, cannot have a greater hold over one’s heart. For Henry Jacques, this is the art of perfumery; the creation of fragrances that reflect the many facets of our souls and shape the way we will be remembered.
Perfume, being so delicate, needs to be treated with the noblest care. Thus, since the beginning, Henry Jacques has been on a quest for flacons worthy of holding the precious essences. Just as the most beautiful dress is worthy of a beautiful woman.
This complex craft of matching crystal and fragrances has become intrinsic to Henry Jacques’s work, giving birth to what we believe is a true form of art: the conception of masterpieces – fragrances that are completed by the beautiful vessels that hold them.
Todat French ‘Haute Parfumerie’ Maison Henry Jacques presents the Renaissance Collection, an exclusive assemblage of rare and aromatic scents housed in striking crystal flacons. The latest gold-covered collection falls under the umbrella of Henry Jacques’ most exclusive collections, Masterpieces.
The gem-encrusted flacons are the concepts of creative director Christophe Tollemer. An expert Parisian goldsmith who was also enlisted to bring the vision into reality. A renewed variation of the Jewellery collection, the Renaissance collection introduces novel couture scents that reflect the magnificence of the hand-blown crystal flacons and respective embedded stones.
Taking inspiration from Renaissance paintings, the intricate gold meshwork evokes aristocratic classicism. Available in a range of five flacon varieties, two flacons feature golden lines overlapping along the crystal curves and accentuated by brown or white diamonds. The three remaining Renaissance flacons boast detailed lacework, set with pink rubellite tourmaline or yellow citrine gemstones.
Henry Jacques is all about perfume; fragrances that mirror the many nuances of the soul and shape the way we will be remembered. As a result, only the most precious and exclusive ingredients from around the world give life to the rich perfumes housed in these decadent artefacts. Offered in two sizes, 60ml and 150ml, each flacon houses a unique scent. Without a doubt, the limited-edition Renaissance collection is a dream come true for those with a passion for Haute Parfumerie.
Each Masterpiece is a story, an olfactory portrait, the mystical interdependence of fragrance and flacon adding an exquisite emotional dimension.
The Henry Jacques Renaissance Collection is available at Henry Jacques boutique’s (Paris, London – Harrods, Doha, Dubaï, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore) and online. Come into the beautiful world of Henry Jacques.
Henry Jacques perfumes manifest the very soul of their Maison’s founder, Henry Cremona, a world traveller who drew on his childhood, wanderlust and dreams of faraway lands to feed his deep passion for fragrance.
From his encounter with one of the last great noses of the old French Perfume tradition, a perfume house was born, steeped in the family’s culture, a taste for absolute refinement, and an obsession with rarity and perfection.
A family affair, a love affair… Parfums Henry Jacques embodies nearly half a century of excellence and creativity at the service of Great Perfumery.
The Maison instinctively found its place in the universe of the discerning few and, for decades, their atelier was dedicated solely to the creation of bespoke fragrances. They discreetly worked in the shadows to satisfy the wishes of their clients. Each request was a new perfume, each one creating a new memory, reawakening a lost emotion. Within the rich artistic sphere surrounding the family, the number of creations grew with every passing year.
After long and thoughtful preparation, Henry Jacques recently opened its realm to the public, through a handful of distinguished locations around the world, each custom-designed to showcase their singular collections.
French Maison Henry Jacques created a new category of perfume with the launch of Les Toupies (‘the spinning tops’) in 2019. Combining a design feat – exquisite crystal flacons that were also functioning tops – with beautiful perfumes, these fragrances became instant collectibles for true connoisseurs.
The first chapter Mr. H and Mrs. Y. told the story of French elegance with a couple scent that included notes of cedar leaf, sandalwood and tobacco for him, and ylang-ylang, tonka bean and jasmine for her.
The second pair, No.16 and No.81, were deeply rooted in classical haute perfumery, but given a modern twist. No.81 combined citrus notes with layers of smoke and wood for complexity, while No.16 played off the classic rose de mai ingredient, with a lively floral top note and a honeyed trail.
The final duo, Les Toupies III, completed the collection. Anne-Lise Cremona, the CEO of Parfums Henry Jacques, said, “This chapter is probably the one that stirred up the most discussion between us. We wanted so much to translate several important facets of Henry Jacques within these couple of perfumes”.
We wanted to express our reverie, the freshness and ambition of youth and its wonderful poetry. It was a real challenge to transmit our vision of these very commonly used themes, make them our own, but we finally did it and the result surpassed our imagination.
Anne-Lise Cremona
Like the greatest hits of love poems, Galileo and Fanfan are dreamers and lovers driven by passion and exuberance. Playing off each other, the former is an innately ‘European’ scent; masculine yet tender, while the latter is very Parisian with a complexity that smells soft but graceful.
Henry Jacques Galileo
Galileo has a head full of stars, as we like to say. It has high ideals and a strong will. It is a perfume that we thought of for men. It usually does not go unnoticed and has a lot of personality with its patchouli side but also a true depth to it.
Anne-Lise Cremona
The first scent, Galileo, is a very European take on perfumery. Galileo opens with lavender and geranium blending it with Italian mandarin. A masculine scent, its heart offers notes of patchouli, myrrh, and benzoin before finishing with a blend of oakmoss, tobacco, and amber for a decadent finish.
Henry Jacques Fanfan
Fanfan still feels beautifully mysterious to me to this day. This perfume is very special and allies the greatest refinement – with its iris robe – with a much younger and exuberant aspect. It represents perfectly the young woman I dreamed of, infusing the world with her natural joy.
Anne-Lise Cremona
The second perfume Fanfan, is a soft, Parisian-inspired fragrance with an underlying intensity. Bringing lavender into the spotlight it is combined with saffron and Egyptian geranium for its opening notes. At the heart, Indian sandalwood and roseDamascenia are followed by the trail of Moroccan cedarwood, leather, and amber. Despite its complex layers, Fanfan remains a very Parisian perfume by nature, as graceful as it is unpretentious.
Now that all six fragrances have been released, it is clear to see that they form a kind of family – complementary both in terms of the perfumes and the flacons – while each remains distinctive.
Les Toupies (‘the spinning tops’) are meant to be enjoyed in pairs. Fanfan & Galileo is playful and evocative, with a story featuring numerous characters, lives and romances. Also, they’re the most curved and rounded Toupies of all.
Each detail of Les Toupies was pain stakingly created by the Maison’s artistic director Christophe Tollemer during the more than three years of development. Artisans were specially commissioned by Henry Jacques, with surgical precision the handmade flacons were designed to be symmetrical and possess a stable axis, even though they are multifacted and have no central point.
The detailed, delicate crystal flacons feature complex patterns, planes and angles crafted to summon the character of the enclosed fragrance. Collectors are spoilt for choice – not only are these incredibly collectible as objets d’art, they each have a distinctive perfuming language that will appeal to sophisticated noses.
Our Toupies are six limited edition perfumes, meant to be collected, sharing a common thread. They are held in these incredible toy-like spinning top crystal flacons. These perfumes have been conceived as a whole and are meant to complete each other, answer each other and tell together a stronger story than on their own.
Anne-Lise Cremona
The Les Toupies III collection is now available at all Henry Jacques boutiques worldwide.Come into the beautiful world of Henry Jacques.
French Maison Henry Jacques perfumes manifest the very soul of our Maison’s founder, Henry Cremona, a world traveller who drew on his childhood, wanderlust and dreams of faraway lands to feed his deep passion for fragrance. From his encounter with one of the last great noses of the old French Perfume tradition, a perfume house was born, steeped in the family’s culture, a taste for absolute refinement, and an obsession with rarity and perfection.
A family affair, a love affair… Parfums Henry Jacques embodies nearly half a century of excellence and creativity at the service of Great Perfumery.
The Maison instinctively found its place in the universe of the discerning few and, for decades, their atelier was dedicated solely to the creation of bespoke fragrances. They discreetly worked in the shadows to satisfy the wishes of their clients. Each request was a new perfume, each one creating a new memory, reawakening a lost emotion. Within the rich artistic sphere surrounding the family, the number of creations grew with every passing year.
After long and thoughtful preparation, Henry Jacques recently opened its realm to the public, through a handful of distinguished locations around the world, each custom-designed to showcase our singular collections. Now the Parisian Haute Parfumier has officially opened the doors of its boutique in Galeries Lafayette Doha at 21 High st, Katara Cultural Village. The French Maison is delighted to be able to share its passion for crafting the greatest scents and to bring to life its savoir-faire and extraordinary connections in Qatar.
The Maison brings its revered fragrances and immense savoir-faire to Qatari connoisseurs.
Henry Jacques embodies almost half a century of excellence and creativity. Born of Founder Henry Cremona’s travels, his inexhaustible passion and his wondrous encounter with one of the last great noses of the old French Perfume tradition, the Maison is one of the last family-run perfumeries. Its South of France laboratory houses thousands of scents and only the most precious and exclusive ingredients, so loved by those with a taste for absolute refinement, rarity and olfactory perfection.
The boutique houses the entire range of fragrances in a home-from-home setting. Amongst the perfumes showcased are the 50 Les Classiques, a collection of Essences that embody the Haute Parfumerie’s achievements of a lifetime and entire legacy. A new and lighter expression of Les Classiques has also just been introduced: Les Brumes. Offered in a convertible flacon, Les Brumes are designed to be splashed or sprayed and present a new way of wearing the Henry Jacques signature scents in a more casual and modern way.
Visitors will also be able to marvel the Masterpieces of the Maison: from the limited edition ‘Les Toupies’, or spinning tops, to the Renaissance Jewellery collection with its individual scents presented in gem-encrusted flacons. At the heart of the offering is the Bespoke service, whereby together with guidance from the experts, clients create their own individual scents, a ritual that is very much appreciated by those with a fine nose and part of Middle Eastern traditions that date back through history.
The unique style of the new boutique embodies Henry Jacques’ attention to detail and its visionary spirit. Designed by Christophe Tollemer, esteemed architect and Henry Jacques’ Artistic Director, the space is inspired by an 18th century French castle, gracefully blending the illustriousness of the past with modern-day elegance and charm.
The Henry Jacques Boutique in Doha is the second in the Middle East and adds to its ever-growing presence worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Henry Jacques.
French fragrance atelier Parfums Henry Jacques was founded by Henry Cremona in 1975 and since then the Maison has been creating bespoke fragrances for the world’s greatest clientele.
Henry Jacques has been creating exquisite fragrances for over 40 years, and while its offerings have previously been made-to-order at the request of discerning clients, the Maison began expanding three years ago and now offers a permanent selection on its shelves.
The newest line to be launched by Haute French Parfumerie Henry Jacques, Les Toupies – or Spinning Tops – are the expression of everyone’s inner dream. Part of the rare collection of Masterpieces. Each Toupie in the pair contains its own, unique and exclusive fragrance, one for men and one for women, each with a real distinction to their style.
Recently, the French Maison launched the first fragrances, Mr. H and Mrs. Y, as part of its Les Toupies series. Mr. H is a well-balanced blend of fresh green Cedar leaf and Geranium with warm Sandalwood, Tobacco, Amber and Patchouli; while its other half, Mrs. Y, is a sweet floral-bouquet of Ylang-Ylang, Rose Damascenia, Jasmine, precious Iris, Lily of the Valley and Tonka bean.
More and more we see everybody mixing scents. Some perfumes that were traditionally created for women are also very beautiful when worn by men. It’s not a question of being feminine or masculine; it’s a question of personality,
Anne-Lise Cremona
For all the creative mixing that went into the two formulations, however, Henry Jacques chief executive Anne-Lise Cremona, daughter of perfumer Henry Cremona, believes in the unisexuality of perfumes.
The juices are housed in intricately-designed symmetrical crystal flacons, which are reminiscent of the spinning tops that one would associate with a fun-loving child. Les Toupies are offered in pairs or individually and are specially designed for those with an endless passion for art, historic French craftsmanship and olfactive know-how.
With the Mr. H flacon being slightly larger, the two fragrances seem to form a coordinated visual of an endless waltz. What a perfect match.
It takes a good few years for an Henry Jacques perfume to make the journey from conception to crystal bottle. For the first scents in the perfumer’s Les Toupie line of fragrances, the curved-crystal flacons alone took three years to develop. Every single detail has been overseen by Artistic Director Christophe Tollemer. The Men’s flacon is slightly larger than the Women’s and when looking at them side by side, their curves seem to respond each other’s.
The Henry Jacques Les Toupies collection is now available at Henry Jacques Boutique, and very selected stores. Come into the beautiful world of Parfums Henry Jacques.
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