Houbigant

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Parquet became a joint owner in 1880 and moved the works to Neuilly-sur-Seine.

The record

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Name

Houbigant

documented

Houbigant forme internationale

BNF-HOUBIGANT · Bibliothèque nationale de France · read 2026-10-08

confidence A

Kind

fragrance house

house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the grouping on /houses: what the firm was chiefly known for in the sources read

confidence B

Founded

1775 (year)

documented

Naissance : 1775

BNF-HOUBIGANT · Bibliothèque nationale de France · read 2026-10-08
HOUBIGANT-ABOUT · Parfums Houbigant Paris · read 2026-10-08

confidence A

Founders

• Jean-François Houbigant
  documented

  a young man, Jean-Francois Houbigant, hung a hand painted sign of a basket of flowers over his little shop

  HOUBIGANT-ABOUT · Parfums Houbigant Paris · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

Places

• Paris, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré (founded in)
  documented

  over his little shop in rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré

  HOUBIGANT-ABOUT · Parfums Houbigant Paris · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

• Neuilly-sur-Seine (manufacturing and administration, under Paul Parquet) (works)
  documented

  It was under his direction that manufacturing and administration were moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine

  HOUBIGANT-ABOUT · Parfums Houbigant Paris · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

Documented work

• Fougère Royale · by Paul Parquet
  documented

  Fougère Royale HOUBIGANT 1884 Fougère Fougère Paul Parquet

  OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30

  confidence A

• Paul Parquet · joint owner of the business from 1880
  documented

  In 1880 Perfumer Paul Parquet became joint owner of the Houbigant business.

  HOUBIGANT-ABOUT · Parfums Houbigant Paris · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

What it became

• acquired by the family that runs the present company, which took control of the name for fragrances and cosmetics (2005)
  documented

  in 2005 by acquiring the control of the Houbigant name for the fragrances and cosmetics market

  HOUBIGANT-ABOUT · Parfums Houbigant Paris · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

Today

trading as Parfums Houbigant Paris (its own site) (checked 2026-10-08)

documented

Parfums Houbigant Paris. All Rights Reserved.

HOUBIGANT-ABOUT · Parfums Houbigant Paris · read 2026-10-08

confidence B

Wikidata

Q731488

documented

"qid": "Q731488"

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Houbigant)

confidence A

Where the sources disagree

• Fougère Royale: the house dates it to 1882, the Osmothèque to 1884. (HOUBIGANT-ABOUT, OSMO-1)

In history

• Houbigant, the perfume house, dated 1775

Sources

1. BNF-HOUBIGANT · Bibliothèque nationale de France. Authority record ark:/12148/cb12124642k: Houbigant. catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12124642k · read 2026-10-08 · Licence Ouverte de l'État (Etalab) — BnF descriptive and authority metadata
2. HOUBIGANT-ABOUT · Parfums Houbigant Paris. “About us — Houbigant Parfum”, the company’s own account. www.houbigant-parfum.com/pages/about-us · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (all rights reserved) (quoted, not reproduced)
3. OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums. Collection Osmothèque, juin 2015 (PDF list: name, house, launch year, concentration, family, sub-family, perfumers). www.osmotheque.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Col… · read 2026-09-30 · no reuse licence stated; short quotes and single facts only, under fair use (quoted, not reproduced)
4. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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