Sylvaine Delacourte

Sylvaine Delacourte is a Paris-based niche perfume brand created by perfumer and former Guerlain artistic director Sylvaine Delacourte. After spending around 15 years at Guerlain as creative director of perfumes, where she worked on custom fragrances for VIP clients and contributed to dozens of launches, she founded her own house under the name Sylvaine Delacourte Paris. The brand focuses on composing fragrances around a single emblematic raw material at a time.

Launched in the mid-2010s, the brand builds structured collections that each revolve around one note explored in multiple facets. Early releases included a Musk Collection, followed by a Vanilla Collection and a Fleur d'Oranger (orange blossom) Collection, with each collection offering five different interpretations of the same core ingredient. In interviews, Delacourte has described her concept as reimagining one iconic raw material into several contrasting personalities, such as creating a "green" musk or pairing vanilla with sage or sesame.

Production is centered in France, and Delacourte emphasizes environmentally conscious choices, including fully recyclable packaging and formulas that are described as cruelty free and free from parabens, phthalates, and dyes. The line is positioned as niche but relatively streamlined and educational, encouraging wearers to discover how small changes in composition can shift the character of a familiar note. Over a short span, the house has become associated with focused, ingredient-led collections that reflect Delacourte's long experience in luxury perfumery while giving her more freedom to experiment with unconventional pairings.