Miller et Bertaux

Miller et Bertaux began in Paris in 1985. Francis Miller and Patrick Bertaux opened a boutique in the Marais where they presented clothing and objects discovered on their travels. This combination of their own design with collected objects gave the brand a personal, curatorial character before fragrance appeared.

The lives and travels of the two founders became the source of its fragrance stories. Compositions are intended for women and men without gender division. The brand favours French production, principally in Provence, while its fragrances are created by perfumers working in Grasse and Provence.

The first three Miller et Bertaux fragrances share a common base. They were conceived to be worn separately or combined. This principle creates compositional kinship within the early series while allowing the wearer to alter the result through layering. The brand history does not state the precise release year of these first fragrances.

Fragrance #1 lists cedar, sandalwood, white lily, black iris, ylang-ylang, spices, and rosewood. Shanti Shanti centres on rose petals, Indian sandalwood, pale iris, patchouli leaves, pink pepper, and cardamom. A shared woody floral territory does not make them identical: their materials and combinations differ.

The selected pages do not name the perfumers behind #1 and Shanti Shanti, and there is no separate document explaining ownership. This profile therefore rests on the established founders' history, French production, the shared-base principle of the early trio, and specific descriptions of two fragrances.