Maison 77 of 100 · Beauty & Fragrance
Clé de Peau Beauté
The reading
Shiseido’s luxury floor. Japanese skincare dogma (layering, ritual, light) at Place-Vendôme prices. The concealer is a cult object among makeup artists who do not otherwise speak in cults.
The house
- Origin
- Japan
- Founded
- 1982
- Atelier
- Beauty & Fragrance
- Ownership
- Shiseido
- Signature
- La Crème / concealer
- Register note
- Radiance as craft This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
The register, counted around it
It is one of four maisons filed here from Japan, level with Germany as the sixth-largest national group in the register. It is the only house here filed to Shiseido. Sorted oldest first, the hundred put it 83rd. Counted inside its own room it stands 4th of the ten houses this register files under Beauty & Fragrance. Beauty & Fragrance holds ten of the hundred places, the fifth-largest room in the register. Hublot (1980) and Ritz-Carlton (1983) are its closest neighbours by founding year here. Japan is No. 4 of the hundred economies in this register's atlas, at $4.38T — International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook database, April 2026.