Maison Crivelli

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History of the house

Maison Crivelli was founded in 2018 in Paris (France) by Thibaud Crivelli. Crivelli moved to China in 2006 and spent more than ten years living across several Asian countries, an itinerary that shaped his attention to raw materials and his appetite for sensory memory.

The house launched in 2018 with four opening perfumes: Rose Saltifolia, Bois Datchaï, 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 Stéphanie Bakouche for Rose Saltifolia, Dorothée Piot for Bois Datchaï and Richard Ibanez for Santal Volcanique. Fleur Diamantine is attributed to Bertrand Duchaufour.

The catalog then expanded at a measured pace of a few releases per year. Absinthe Boréale, composed by Nathalie Feisthauer, arrived in 2019. Hibiscus Mahajád was released in 2021. Tubéreuse Astrale, signed by Quentin Bisch, translated a memory of tuberose blossoms observed under the Milky Way. Additional compositions, including Papyrus Moléculaire, Iris Malikhân, Osmanthe Kodoshan, Citrus Batikanga and Lys Sølaberg, progressively enriched the offer.

Maison Crivelli operates a flagship boutique at 314 rue Saint-Honoré in Paris (France).

The collections

At Maison Crivelli, the collections are not a filing system but the very concept of the house: Thibaud Crivelli structures his catalog by type of olfactory encounter, each family staging a different way of stepping into a fragrance. Shock, escape, mystery and experience name as many sensory states the house pursues, and it is this grammar of emotions, more than any olfactory family, that organizes how the catalog reads. Every line extends the founding principle: a precise memory entrusted to an invited perfumer.

Olfactory Shocks

Olfactory Shocks stage the abrupt encounter, the perfume that seizes you from the first inhalation. The house builds unexpected contrasts here, where the signature material confronts a powerful counter-accord with no transition and no cushioning. Hibiscus Mahajád, a fruity floral where rose and vanilla meet a leather accord, captures exactly this intended collision and has become one of the house's emblems. Tubéreuse Astrale (2024), entrusted to Quentin Bisch, and Cuir Infrarouge extend the same logic of immediate tension. It is the family that carries the boldest side of Maison Crivelli's identity.

Olfactory Escapes

Olfactory Escapes stage the encounter with elsewhere, organized around oud and musks, two materials the house now declines into distinct sub-lines. Each perfume works a single material in several directions, like the successive stages of an itinerary. Oud Maracujá and Oud Cadenza on the oud side, Musc Nurāsana on the musk side, show how one material can become both landscape and movement. The collection carries Thibaud Crivelli's olfactory travel-diary instinct, attached to the climates and cultures he crossed in Asia.

Olfactory Mysteries

Olfactory Mysteries stage the encounter that withholds itself, the deep, enigmatic composition charged with tension. These perfumes unfold slowly and reward patience, playing on shadow, ambiguity and chiaroscuro rather than frontal impact. Safran Secret, an emblematic house creation, illustrates this restrained register where the material advances masked. It is the most introspective side of the catalog, the opposite of the immediate shock.

Olfactory Experiences

Olfactory Experiences stage the total encounter, where the fragrance deploys the full range of multi-sensory storytelling the house holds dear, weaving together atmosphere, memory and material. Presented as eaux de parfum, while the other collections come as extraits, this collection gathers the house's earliest creations, from Rose Saltifolia and Bois Datchaï to Absinthe Boréale. Santal Volcanique (2018), entrusted to Richard Ibanez, shows the ambition: a sandalwood set ablaze by a spiced coffee. It is the historical core of the catalog.

Notable perfumes

The Maison Crivelli catalog is composed in collaboration with several perfumers selected project by project. The seven reference compositions are listed below.

Olfactory 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.

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 olfactory 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.

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

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