The festive season is open! This is undoubtedly when the most beautiful festive moments take place, those that mark a memory for a lifetime: at the table. It is no coincidence that in France we talk about the Art of the Table. From porcelain to silverware, from haute gastronomy to local cuisine, from wines to codes of good manners, the table is a true art of living, governed by requirements, fashions and rituals that may seem mysterious to the uninitiated, but ultimately, there is only one quality that has prevailed in the art of entertaining for centuries: delicacy.

As Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, the magistrate gastronomer and thinker on gourmet pleasures and hedonism, wrote in 1825 in his seminal work The Physiology of Taste, Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy: ...

This dispatch is aimed above all at the hairy and dishevelled individuals, but bald and hairless ones are also most welcome.

As a prelude to winter, the Officine starts its rentrée littéraire – literary season – with a Bulybrary-style introduction, an ode to the epistolary art but in opposition to rebellious hair locks. Our headlines today feature our accessories, which you can engrave with your favourite name, to pass on your beauty routine as a legacy, and keep up with the times when it comes to styling. Without getting in knots.

This summer, the Officine invites you on a trip to bulyesque lands for a complete and semantic change of scenery. From reading comes curiosity and from curiosity comes fervour.

Driven by a passion for journeys to perfumed lands, the Officine is delighted to announce the addition of four scents - from a bygone collection - to its permanent collection. The Officine is thus perpetuating a studious but enthusiastic venture: imagining a true library of scents with universal character. 

Beyond the visual shock, the first thing that strikes the traveller who arrives in a faraway land is the intricate and fascinating scent that floats through the air, that scent of unknown spices or bougainvillea flowers, damp earth, tree and plant sap or heady incense, mystical fumes or the aromas of dishes ready to be discovered...