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2.04.2025

The Art and Olfaction Awards – A Moment Etched in Scent

There are milestones that feel less like triumph and more like quiet affirmation. As if the work itself, whispered into the world with devotion and doubt, has been gently acknowledged. To be shortlisted for The Art and Olfaction Awards—one of the most respected honours in independent perfumery—is one such moment. We did not set out...

2.04.2025

Best of Scent 2024 – A Fragrant Honour

Some recognitions arrive not with loud applause, but with quiet wonder. A soft unfolding. A feeling that settles deep in the chest—half disbelief, half gratitude. When we learned that Papillon had been named one of ÇaFleureBon’s Best of Scent for 2024, that was precisely the feeling. It is one thing to create perfume. Another entirely...

2.04.2025

A Perfumer’s Paradise: La Basílica Galería, Barcelona

La Basílica Galería is a stunning  space, dedicated to the art of perfumery in collaboration with top perfumers around the world. Located between the ancient walls of a building in the historic Jewish quarter of Barcelona, ​​this perfumery offers an innovative way to smell scents through crystal bell jars. The Perfumery opened its space in...

2.04.2025

A Delightful Evening in Amsterdam

28th October, 2014. Amsterdam in autumn—soft rain on old stone, golden light curling through café windows, and the scent of woodsmoke drifting through the crisp dusk air. It was on such an evening that Papillon was invited to be part of something quietly extraordinary. Our fragrances had recently arrived in the Netherlands, and with them...

2.04.2025

Papillon Reaches America – A Scented Crossing

On the 21st of August, 2014, something beautiful happened. A box left the quiet hum of our English studio and began a journey we had only dared to imagine. Inside it were bottles—small, amber, unassuming to the untrained eye. But to us, they carried everything: the years of work, the tears, the late nights, the...