Maison 75 of 100 · Beauty & Fragrance
Lancôme
The reading
L’Oréal’s prestige flagship. Absolue for the treatment room, Idôle for the duty-free aisle. Not a couture house; a beauty house with couture distribution. The industrial face of French luxury perfume.
The house
- Origin
- France
- Founded
- 1935
- Atelier
- Beauty & Fragrance
- Ownership
- L’Oréal
- Signature
- Idôle / Absolue / Lash Idôle
- Register note
- Global prestige beauty scale This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
The register, counted around it
Its stablemates here are Creed — two L’Oréal houses in all. The register's France cohort runs to twenty-six — the largest national group here — and it is one. Against the whole register by founding year it comes 56th of a hundred. Within the register it is the 2nd of the ten houses filed under Beauty & Fragrance. Twenty-four of the hundred were founded between 1900 and 1949, this one included. The register's oldest house is Rémy Martin (1724) and its youngest Genesis (2015); this one was founded 1935. The highest-ranked Beauty & Fragrance house here is Guerlain, at No. 74.