Maison 82 of 100 · Beauty & Fragrance
Diptyque
The reading
Three friends, a Left Bank shop, an oval label. The candle that taught hotels how to smell. Philosykos is the fig; Baies is the room. A beauty brand whose most important product is not applied to skin.
The house
- Origin
- France
- Founded
- 1961
- Atelier
- Beauty & Fragrance
- Ownership
- Manzanita (privately held)
- Signature
- Baies / Philosykos
- Register note
- Candle as luxury object This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Its place in the register, counted
It is one of twenty-six maisons filed here from France, the largest national group in the register. It is the only house here filed to Manzanita. It is the 69th-oldest house in the register. Within the register it is the 9th of the ten houses filed under Beauty & Fragrance. Its immediate neighbours in the register are No. 81 Byredo and No. 83 Jo Malone London. Beauty & Fragrance holds ten of the hundred places, the fifth-largest room in the register. Its rank puts it in the fourth quarter of the hundred.