Maison Crivelli

History of the house

Maison Crivelli was founded in 2018 in Paris (France) by Thibaud Crivelli, a French entrepreneur born in Paris and raised between central France and Provence. From 2006 onward, Crivelli spent close to ten years living in China and across several Asian countries, an itinerary that shaped his attention to raw materials and his appetite for sensory memory (Maison Crivelli official site, Fragrantica designer page, The Perfume Society house profile, accessed 2026-05-23).

The founder's family background, recounted in published interviews, draws on a layered geography. A mother born in Morocco, a grandmother raised in Vietnam, a grandfather who passed through Lebanon, and Italian roots tied to the Crivelli name compose a multicultural lineage that the house has framed as a source of olfactive curiosity. The biographical narrative, repeated across Twisted Lily, Fragrantica and the official site, supports the editorial reading of the brand as a perfumed travel diary rather than a Parisian heritage exercise.

The house launched in 2018 with four opening perfumes: Rose Saltifolia, Bois Datchai, Santal Volcanique and Fleur Diamantine. The four releases set the editorial principle of the house. Each composition starts from a precise sensory experience lived by Thibaud Crivelli, then passed to a guest perfumer chosen for the brief. The first releases were composed in collaboration with Bertrand Duchaufour, Nathalie Feisthauer, Dorothee Piot and Quentin Bisch (Maison Crivelli official site, Fragrantica designer page, Parfumo brand page, accessed 2026-05-23).

The catalogue then expanded at a measured pace of a few releases per year. Absinthe Boreale, composed by Nathalie Feisthauer, arrived in 2019. Hibiscus Mahajad was released in 2021. Tubereuse Astrale, signed by Quentin Bisch, translated a memory of tuberose blossoms observed under the Milky Way. Additional compositions, including Papyrus Moleculaire, Iris Malikhan, Osmanthe Kodoshan, Citrus Batikanga and Lys Solaberg, progressively enriched the offer (Fragrantica designer page, Parfumo brand page, The Perfume Society house profile, accessed 2026-05-23).

Olfactive signature

Maison Crivelli writes a contemporary sensorial signature structured around narrative compositions. Each perfume begins from a scene lived by Thibaud Crivelli: an absinthe tasting under northern light, sandalwood burning on the slopes of an active volcano, a walk through a rose field swept by sea wind. The scene is then handed to a guest perfumer chosen for the central material and the contrast at stake (Maison Crivelli official site, Twisted Lily interview with Thibaud Crivelli, Fragrantica designer page, accessed 2026-05-23).

The house works on a consistent principle of unexpected accords. The signature material named in the title meets a counter-accord: rose paired with a marine note, sandalwood paired with a volcanic warmth, tuberose paired with a cosmic freshness. The result is a recognizable olfactive grammar built on the tension between a classical material and a contemporary twist. The writing favors transparency and spatial depth over heavy concentration, and aligns with the broader contemporary French perfumery sensibility of the late 2010s.

Raw-material sourcing is a stated axis of the house. Thibaud Crivelli has reported visits to vetiver and patchouli plantations in Indonesia, and the brand communicates on its preference for durable agricultural practices, including soil preservation, the avoidance of synthetic chemical fertilizers and traceable quality control. The narrative is part of the wider movement of French independent houses that integrate sourcing as an editorial argument rather than a back-office function (Maison Crivelli official site, Twisted Lily interview, The Perfume Society house profile, accessed 2026-05-23).

A contemporary French niche house written as an olfactive travel diary, with each perfume confiding a personal memory to a different invited perfumer.

Key characteristics

Notable perfumes

The Maison Crivelli catalogue is composed in collaboration with several perfumers selected project by project. The seven reference compositions below are drawn from the maison's published catalogue, with perfumer attribution kept only when confirmed.

This page only names perfumers where Maison Crivelli and the reference databases agree, and keeps the wording "invited perfumer" for the other compositions, in line with the Osmetheca rule on factual prudence.

The house today

In May 2026, Maison Crivelli operates a flagship boutique at 314 rue Saint-Honore in Paris (France), a stretch of the right bank now identified as a hub of contemporary luxury perfumery, alongside Creed and Acqua di Parma. The house is also distributed through Galeries Lafayette and La Samaritaine in Paris, and through a selective network of niche perfumeries internationally (Maison Crivelli official site, The Perfume Society house profile, Fragrantica designer page, accessed 2026-05-23).

As of the last update of this page, no acquisition by a luxury group is publicly documented. Maison Crivelli is presented as an independent house, still directed by its founder Thibaud Crivelli, with a catalogue that grows at a rhythm of a few launches per year and outside any industrial seasonal logic. The commercial proposition pairs the boutique flagship with selective wholesale distribution, in line with the broader independent niche model of the Paris scene.

The house positions itself within the contemporary French niche perfumery segment that emerged in the 2010s alongside Nicolai, Le Galion redux and a wave of founder-driven projects. Its distinctive feature within that segment is the consistency of the collaborative model, where the creative direction stays with Thibaud Crivelli while the technical composition rotates across a small circle of trusted perfumers, a structure comparable in spirit to the editorial model of Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle.

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