Lubin Paris

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Lubin Paris
legal form
founding 1798
Seat Paris
management Gilles Thévenin
Number of employees 20th
sales approx. 1.0 million euros (2012)
Branch Perfume making
Website www.lubin.eu

Lubin Paris is a French perfume manufacturer from Paris . The company is one of the oldest of its kind in the world and still produces exclusively in France .

history

The house was founded in 1798 by Pierre François Lubin (1774-1853) shortly before the end of the French Revolution . The founder had already started an apprenticeship with the renowned perfumer Francesco Tombarelli in Grasse when he was ten and moved to Paris in 1790 to deepen his training with Jean-Louis Fargeon (1748–1806). He was the personal purveyor to the court of Queen Marie Antoinette and also supplied her during the time when she was in prison after the outbreak of the revolution.

As early as 1830, Lubin was the first French fragrance house to export its products to North America . Other continents followed, and soon customers were being served in all parts of the world. In 1844 there was a change of ownership because the founder had no heirs. The company passed to Félix Prot, who continued and developed the traditional company. In 1855, the management fell to his son Paul Prot, who opened the largest perfume production in France in Courbevoie on the outskirts of Paris in 1900 and handed the company over to his sons Marcel and Pierre in 1920.

Her sons, André and Paul, sold Lubin in the late 1960s. Further changes of ownership followed. After Lubin late 1970s temporarily owned by Henkel , was the French perfume house in 1984 went to the Cologne 4711 -Fabrikanten Muelhens about the 1994 part of the Wella AG in Darmstadt was. In the years that followed, Wella bundled its cosmetics division, which now also included Lubin, under the umbrella of Cosmopolitan Cosmetics GmbH and was taken over in 2003 by the American detergent and cosmetics manufacturer Procter & Gamble .

In the course of numerous changes of ownership, Lubin temporarily lost its importance. In 2004 there was a turning point. The French entrepreneur Gilles Thévenin, who had previously been the creative director of Guerlain and head of marketing at Rochas , took over the fragrance house and began to rebuild the brand.

Thévenin also managed to save the fragrance house's extensive archive, which is gradually being processed and completed thanks to the support of former employees. This allows Lubin to reissue old compositions. The company currently has 15 different fragrances in its range.

Lubin Paris currently employs 20 people and, according to Gilles Thévenin, expects sales of one million euros in 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Rengshausen: Trademark protection of smells: Investigation of German, French and European law with prospects for patent and copyright law . V&R unipress GmbH, 2004, ISBN 978-3-89971-140-0 excerpt
  2. ^ Vanityfair.com: Black Jade: On the Trail of Marie Antoinette's Last Scent.
  3. ^ Prestige from the Seine . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1981, p. 230 ( online ).
  4. ↑ a b Maren Hoffmann: The fragrance renaissance. In: manager-magazin.de , November 30, 2012. ( Online )

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