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Payan Bertrand
A Grasse house of natural raw materials founded as Honoré Payan in 1854 and named Payan et Bertrand from 1886; an active company in Grasse today.
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In 1925 it distilled lavender in the Alps and the Cévennes; its works stood by the road to Saint-Jean.
The record
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- Name
- Payan Bertrand
documented
- Kind
- producer of naturals
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
- 1854 (year)
documented
La société de parfumerie Honoré Payan, fondée officiellement en 1854
POP-HONORE-PAYAN · Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (the study of the Grasse perfume… · read 2026-10-08
PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation · read 2026-10-08
PB-MAISON · Payan Bertrand · read 2026-10-08confidence A
- Founders
- Honoré Payan
documented
La société de parfumerie Honoré Payan, fondée officiellement en 1854
POP-HONORE-PAYAN · Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (the study of the Grasse perfume… · read 2026-10-08
confidence A
- Honoré Payan
- Places
- Grasse, the historic centre (founded in)
documented
se trouvait dans le centre historique de Grasse
POP-HONORE-PAYAN · Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (the study of the Grasse perfume… · read 2026-10-08
confidence A
- Grasse, by the road to Saint-Jean (works)
documented
à l’entrée du chemin de Saint-Jean
PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation · read 2026-10-08
confidence B
- Grasse, the historic centre (founded in)
- Documented work
- lavender essential oil (huile essentielle de lavande) · distilled in the Alps and the Cévennes (1925)
documented
particulièrement bien placée pour la production de la lavande
PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation · read 2026-10-08
confidence B
- lavender essential oil (huile essentielle de lavande) · distilled in the Alps and the Cévennes (1925)
- What it became
- renamed Payan et Bertrand, when two of the family took over (1886)
documented
qui nomment leur association Payan et Bertrand
POP-PAYAN-BERTRAND · Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (the study of the Grasse perfume… · read 2026-10-08
confidence A
- acquired by the Swiss industrialist Théophile Mühlethaler, who kept the name (1906)
documented
Etienne Bertrand vend l'entreprise en 1906 à l'industriel suisse Théophile Mühlethaler, qui conserve le nom Payan et Bertrand.
POP-PAYAN-BERTRAND · Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (the study of the Grasse perfume… · read 2026-10-08
confidence A
- renamed Payan et Bertrand, when two of the family took over (1886)
- Today
- an active company with its head office in Grasse (French register) (checked 2026-10-08)
documented
siege_commune: GRASSE
FRREG-PAYAN · Insee and DINUM · read 2026-10-08
the register (Sirene) shows the company active
confidence A
- Wikidata
- Q111210990
documented
"qid": "Q111210990"
WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30
the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Payan Bertrand)
confidence A
- Where the sources disagree
- Who took over in 1886: one Inventaire notice names two cousins, Antoine Payan and Etienne Bertrand; another names Honoré Payan’s son Antoine and his nephew Edouard Bertrand. (POP-PAYAN-BERTRAND, POP-HONORE-PAYAN)
Sources
- FRREG-PAYAN · Insee and DINUM. The Sirene company register, read through the Annuaire des Entreprises API (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr), search “payan bertrand”. recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search?q=payan… · read 2026-10-08 · Licence Ouverte v2.0 (the Sirene base, as data.gouv.fr states it)
- PB-MAISON · Payan Bertrand. “Payan Bertrand (la maison)”, the company’s own account. www.payanbertrand.com/payan-bertrand/ · read 2026-10-08 · © Payan Bertrand; no reuse licence (quoted, not reproduced)
- PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation. Paris: La Revue des marques de la parfumerie et de la savonnerie, 1925 (the houses’ own notices, with essays on the trade). Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé (Paris) copy, Internet Archive item BIUSante_pharma_res008536. archive.org/details/BIUSante_pharma_res008536 · read 2026-10-08 · Licence ouverte / Open licence Etalab (the rights statement of the BIU Santé digitisation, as the Internet Archive item states it)
- POP-HONORE-PAYAN · Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (the study of the Grasse perfume factories, 2008). “parfumerie Honoré Payan (notice Mérimée IA06001603)”. Ministère de la Culture, POP (Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine). pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA06001603 · read 2026-10-08 · Licence Ouverte / etalab-2.0 (POP’s notice: “sauf mention contraire”); the notice is credited to the Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Inventaire général, and the Musée International de la Parfumerie
- POP-PAYAN-BERTRAND · Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (the study of the Grasse perfume factories, 2008). “parfumerie Payan Bertrand (notice Mérimée IA06001627)”. Ministère de la Culture, POP (Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine). pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA06001627 · read 2026-10-08 · Licence Ouverte / etalab-2.0 (POP’s notice: “sauf mention contraire”); the notice is credited to the Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Inventaire général, and the Musée International de la Parfumerie
- 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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