Not a fragrance for everyone.
It was created for the man with innate taste.
Duc de Vervins is as vital, polished and accomplished as the noble individualist who wears it. Composed of perfectly-blended essences of great refinement, taste and elegance, it creates an assured presence that honors the aristocrats and noblemen who’ve worn our fragrances since the eighteenth-century. The self-possessed, confident, uninhibited fragrance attracts, intrigues and captivates with its volatile, cool, refreshing headnotes of bergamot and lemon. Warm, dynamic spices burn tumescent with lavender, rosemary, cumin, nutmeg and geranium. Distinguished patchouli and oakmoss absolute base notes underpin plush, velvety, satinwoods and musk.
It all began with just a basket of flowers. One day in Paris in 1775, a young man, Jean-Francois Houbigant, hung a hand-painted sign of a basket of flowers over his little shop in rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. From the start, his fragrances found favor with royalty and the nobility. When Marie-Antoinette was executed by guillotine in 1793, she carried 3 vials of Houbigant perfume in her corsage to give her strength. In the spring of 1815, Napoleon had been in Paris for only three months, raised an army, and yet found time to shop at Houbigant. Two hundred years later, in 1973, Micheal Perris met the last descendant of the Houbigant family and began his involvement with the House of Houbigant. Years later, the Perris family became the owner of the House of Houbigant, and got the honor to try to put back together the historic brand.