S.T. Dupont

Simon Tissot Dupont opened his first leather workshop in Paris in 1872 at the age of twenty-five. This marks the beginning of S.T. Dupont as a craft house rather than a fragrance brand.

In 1941, the house created a luxury lighter, and in 1953 André Dupont introduced the Riviera women’s bag; Audrey Hepburn became one of its first buyers. These objects show the expansion of the range while retaining attention to material and mechanism.

In 1962, Pablo Picasso used S.T. Dupont lighters as surfaces for drawings in lacquer. In 1973, the artisans made a ballpoint pen for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to match her personalised lighter. In 2012, Karl Lagerfeld designed the Mon Dupont collection of pens and lighters.

The fragrance catalogue requires a separate chronology. Pour Homme is structured through herbs, spices, and woods: rosemary, coriander, and artemisia lead to lavender, jasmine, iris, and cypress, over cedar, vetiver, patchouli, sandalwood, and amber.

Essence Pure Pour Homme offers a fresher structure with mandarin, grapefruit, rosemary, and bamboo. Passenger for Men connects a citrus opening to violet leaf, ginger, and pink pepper, followed by woody and resinous facets.