Paul Parquet

Paul Parquet (* 1862, † 1916) was an influential French perfumer and co-owner of Houbigant.

Life

Paul Parquet occurred in 1880 in the perfumery house Houbigant as co-owner and was the "nose" behind their great initial success. He wrote, among other things perfumes

• Fougère Royal ( 1882)
• Le Parfum Ideal (1896 )
• Violette Pourpre (1907 )
• Coeur de Jeannette (1912 )

Until his replacement by Robert Bienaimé, the creator of Quelques Fleurs (1912 ), Parquet was the chief perfumer of the house of Houbigant.

Importance

With the use of coumarin in Fougère Royal (French: royal fern ), in accord with lavender, citrus and wood notes, Parquet revolutionized the perfumery by advocating the first synthetic perfumes in his compositions. Since ferns have no smell, Fougère Royal was also the first fragrance that broke with the imitation of natural scents and Fantasy notes introduced. Fougère Royal, thus marking the beginning of modern perfumery and was, until his disappearance from the market in the late 1960s, often imitated. Thus he became the prototype for a whole fragrance family, the so-called fougere perfumes.

Famous quote

"If God had ferns given an odor, it would smell after Fougère Royal ," Paul Parquet.