Collection: Histoires de Parfums Perfumes.

Its most discussed picks run from a thyme-and-amber to a powdery rose and plum and a leathery herbal scent. Scendira carries 31 Histoires de Parfums perfumes, from about $55 to $237. It is a Paris house founded in 2000 by Gérald Ghislain.

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Ambre 114, 1889 Moulin Rouge and 1740 Marquis de Sade come up most for Histoires de Parfums.

Histoires de Parfums Ambre 114, an EDP from 2001, smells like warm amber syrup with woody herbs and a soft vanilla haze, opening on nutmeg and thyme above amber, vanilla, benzoin, tonka bean and musk.

1889 Moulin Rouge (Eau de Parfum, 2010) is powdery rose and plum with sweet spice, from plum, cinnamon and mandarin down to iris, fur, musk and patchouli.

Herbal bergamot leather with warm spice and smoky resin describes 1740 Marquis de Sade, a 2000 Parfum opening on artemisia and bergamot over immortelle, leather, French labdanum, elemi resin, birch, vanilla and Virginia cedar.

For similar notes see amber perfumes and leather perfumes; the brand directory has the other houses.