Maître Parfumeur et Gantier

When Jean Laporte founded L’Artisan Parfumeur in 1976, he all but invented niche perfumery. In 1988 he started over — with Maître Parfumeur et Gantier, “master perfumer and glover.” The name nods to an old French guild: the gantiers-parfumeurs, who once scented leather gloves to mask the smell of tanning — an art that grew into French perfumery itself. Laporte’s scents — Ambre Précieux, Patchouli 1969, Grain de Plaisir — are classic, rich, characterful. French tradition, from one of its pioneers.