Parfums Lubin

Lubin Paris is a French perfume maker from Paris. The company is known worldwide as one of the oldest of its kind and still produces exclusively in France.

History

The house was founded in 1798 by Pierre François Lubin ( 1774-1853 ) shortly before the end of the French Revolution. The founders had already begun with ten years teaching at the renowned perfumer Francis Tombarelli in Grasse, and was in 1790 moved to Paris to further his training with Jean -Louis Fargeon ( 1748-1806 ). This was a personal purveyor of Queen Marie Antoinette and supplied them in the time when she was in prison after the outbreak of the revolution.

Already in 1830 exported Lubin - the first French perfume house at all - its products to North America. Other continents followed, and soon clients were provided in all parts of the world. 1844 there was a change of ownership since the founder had no heirs. The company was taken over by Félix Prot, who continued the tradition of the house and further developed. 1855 was the management to his son Paul Prot, in Courbevoie on the outskirts of Paris, the biggest perfume production of France, opened in 1900 and 1920, the company handed to his sons Marcel and Pierre.

Her sons, André and Paul, Lubin sold in the late 1960s. Other ownership changes followed. After Lubin end of the 1970s was temporarily owned by Henkel, the French fragrance house passed in 1984 at the Cologne 4711 manufacturers Muelhens over, in 1994 a part of the Wella AG in Darmstadt. Wella pooled in subsequent years its cosmetics division, which now also counted Lubin, for its part, adopted under the auspices of Cosmopolitan Cosmetics GmbH and was established in 2003 by the American detergents and cosmetics manufacturer Procter & Gamble.

In the course of numerous ownership changes Lubin temporarily lost greatly in importance. 2004 finally it came to a turning point. The French entrepreneur Gilles Thévenin, who had been previously creative director of Guerlain and marketing director for Rochas, took over the fragrance house and began to build the brand again.

Thévenin were also able to rescue the extensive archives of the perfume house, which is thanks to the support of former employees worked and completed successively. This allows Lubin, republish old compositions. Currently the company has 15 different scents in the program.

Lubin Paris currently has 20 employees and expects, according to Gilles Thévenin for 2012 a turnover of one million euros.