BestsellerEditor’s choice
L'Huile Précieuse de Rose
Rose Aurora Luminous Facial Oil
Damask rose absolute at its centre, five cold-pressed botanical oils and squalane around it, to give dry skin back the lipids it has lost.
¥1,680
Mathilde Laurent · Head of Formulation
A four-minute reading on the maison craft · Vendôme compounding atelier, Paris
Collection Haute Beauté
Boutique · Every piece can name its ingredients
Grasse rose absolute, alpine plant peptides and micron-fine soft-focus powders. Every piece carries its full INCI list and functional classes.
Bestseller
Fond de Teint Velouté Parfait
Velvet Veil Soft-Focus Foundation
Soft-focus microspheres and pearl mica rebalance how light falls across the face, for a complexion that still looks like skin.
Shades
¥890
BestsellerNew
Rouge Couture Satin
Couture Satin Lipstick
A bullet built on camellia seed oil and carnauba wax: saturated colour that never pulls the lip dry.
Shades
¥460
Editor’s choice
Parfum de Niche · Rose Brumeuse
Private Salon Perfume · Misty Rose and Fir
A rose estate at daybreak: petals still heavy with dew, threaded with the woodiness of a distant fir forest.
¥2,180
New
Crème Renaissance à la Truffe Blanche
White Truffle Peptide Firming Crème
Alba white truffle extract and a four-ceramide complex, to give mature skin back the barrier lipids it misses.
¥2,350
Duo Enlumineur & Poudre Sculptante
Baked Soft-Focus Highlight & Contour Duo
Champagne light paired with a desaturated grey-rose shadow, to sculpt the face in light and shade.
Shades
¥680
Gelée Démaquillante Pureté
Rose Hydrosol Micro-Crystal Cleansing Gel
An amino-acid surfactant system that lifts everyday makeup gently and leaves skin without that tight feeling.
¥490
Editor’s choice
Parure de Soie de Mûrier
Heavyweight Mulberry Silk Eye Mask & Pillowcase Set
Heavyweight 25-momme silk, to reduce friction against face and hair while you sleep.
Shades
¥1,280
Coffret Sur-Mesure
Compose your gold-embossed coffret
Set price for three full-size pieces, finished with a hand-poured wax seal and a silk ribbon lettered to order.
Ribbon
Coffret price
¥1,580
¥3,030
Évolution de la Texture
Drag the divide · Watch the light change
One material under two lights: the gap between them is what the word luminosity actually means, physically. Drag left and right to compare.
What this pair compares
The same texture under the same light, before and after a facial oil
What to look for
Drag the divider and watch the exact moment the highlight turns from diffuse to specular
Backstage technique
Warm two drops of the facial oil between your palms, press outward from the centre of the face, and let it settle for three minutes before foundation. The oil phase first levels the microscopic relief of the stratum corneum, and the direction of reflected light shifts from scattered to directional — that, physically, is where luminosity comes from.
Pieces used here
What this pair compares
From the diffuse light of morning to the directional light of dinner: one palette, two expressions
What to look for
The same lipstick reads at entirely different saturations under the two lights
Backstage technique
By day, sweep the cool tone of the sculpting duo lightly through the socket and under the cheekbone, and press colour only into the centre of the lip. After dark, deepen the shadow in exactly the same places and carry the lip colour right out to the edge. The palette does not change; what changes is how much of it you cover and how sharp you leave the border.
Pieces used here
Lookbook Interactif
Lookbook · Tap the pieces inside the light
Tap a rose anchor in the image to see the shade and the piece used there, and add it straight to your vanity.
Velvet Veil Soft-Focus Foundation
#02 Rose Ivoire
¥890
Couture Satin Lipstick
#520 Rose Mythique
¥460
Private Salon Perfume · Misty Rose and Fir
100ml Extrait
¥2,180
Rêverie Rose sur la Rive Gauche
Rive Gauche · An Afternoon in the Language of Roses
Ten in the morning on the Place Vendôme, where the light arrives only after a second bounce off the stone façades — soft, but never scattered. It is the ideal light for a low-saturation rose complexion: it builds no contrast, it simply traces the outline.
French Effortless · Soft Powder Rosé · Quiet Luxury
Pieces in this look · 3
Velvet Veil Soft-Focus Foundation
#02 Rose Ivoire
Couture Satin Lipstick
#520 Rose Mythique
Private Salon Perfume · Misty Rose and Fir
100ml Extrait
Rose Aurora Luminous Facial Oil
50ml
¥1,680
White Truffle Peptide Firming Crème
50ml
¥2,350
Heavyweight Mulberry Silk Eye Mask & Pillowcase Set
Rose Poudré
¥1,280
Lumière Pure de la Côte d'Azur
Côte d’Azur · A Pure Ritual at First Light
Mediterranean noon light is strong and hard, and any heavy base will show you its edges under it. The resort answer is subtraction: get the water content of the skin right first, and leave the rest to the light.
Clean Beauty · Luminous Skin · Mediterranean Sun
Pieces in this look · 3
Laboratoire Botanique
Ingredient Laboratory · Named in full, with its limits stated
INCI is one of the very few things in cosmetics that is genuinely standardised and genuinely checkable. Every name and functional class below can be verified in a public ingredient database.
Damask Rose Absolute
Rose de Damas Absolue · Rose Valley, Bulgaria
The scent of rose absolute is an ensemble of several hundred molecules, led by phenylethanol, citronellol and geraniol. Those same molecules are among the fragrance allergens the European Union requires to be declared — which is why an honestly made rose product usually has the longer ingredient panel, not the shorter one. What the absolute contributes here is scent and skin feel; writing it up as the formula’s antioxidant workhorse would not be accurate.
What this class of ingredient does
Provides scent. Natural fragrance materials contain declarable allergens just as much as anything else.
What we do not claim
No human antioxidant efficacy trial has been conducted on this product; the rose absolute on the panel is present principally for scent and skin feel.
Alba White Truffle Extract
Truffe Blanche d’Alba · Alba, Piedmont, Italy
White truffle appears as Tuber Magnatum Extract in the INCI system, with skin conditioning as its declared function — a fact anyone can look up in any public ingredient database. It is rich in polysaccharides and proteins, forms a hydrated conditioning film on the surface of the skin, softens roughness and slows water loss. That is its genuine place in a formula: an excellent skin-feel and humectant ingredient, not the lead in an anti-ageing story.
What this class of ingredient does
The broadest class in the INCI system: ingredients that keep skin in good condition.
What we do not claim
The declared function of truffle extract in this formula is skin conditioning. Claims about collagen synthesis or cellular regeneration lack publicly citable human evidence, so we make none.
Multi-Molecular-Weight Sodium Hyaluronate
Acide Hyaluronique Multi-Poids · Biofermentation
How hyaluronic acid behaves is decided almost entirely by molecular weight. Fractions in the million-dalton range cannot cross the stratum corneum, so they stay on the surface as a hydrated film; fractions in the tens of thousands can enter its upper layers. Neither reaches the dermis, which makes “deep hydration” an untenable phrase in dermatological terms. The point of a multi-weight blend is to cover both places at once.
What this class of ingredient does
Attracts and binds water molecules, holding water in the stratum corneum. When humidity is too low it needs an occlusive alongside it.
What we do not claim
Hyaluronic acid acts on the stratum corneum and the skin surface. It does not reach the dermis, and it does not stimulate the skin’s own hyaluronic acid synthesis.
Plant-Derived Squalane
Squalane Végétal · Sugarcane fermentation / olive (Provence, France)
Human sebum already contains squalene, one of the skin’s own natural emollients, but its six double bonds make it oxidise very readily. Hydrogenation into squalane removes those bonds and raises stability considerably, while the affinity with skin survives intact. Ours is fermented from sugarcane and is not of animal origin — in earlier decades this raw material came chiefly from deep-sea shark liver oil.
What this class of ingredient does
Leaves a thin film on the surface of the skin, filling the gaps between corneocytes and improving feel and softness.
What we do not claim
Squalane is an emollient. It reduces transepidermal water loss and improves skin feel; it has no reparative or therapeutic action.
Diagnostic Colorimétrique
Shade Diagnostic · Where real colour-difference figures do the talking
Choose the skin tone closest to yours and every shade is converted into CIELAB, then compared with the complete CIEDE2000 formula. The figures are real, and you are welcome to check them yourself.
Step one · Choose your skin tone
About these reference swatches
These are reference steps, not measured skin. Screens render colour differently on every device, so we still suggest trying a shade in daylight — the value of this tool is that it turns “how far off” into a figure you can check, not that it replaces a swatch on your own skin.
Ivoire Naturel
Neither noticeably yellow nor noticeably pink; gold and silver jewellery both sit well.
- CIELAB
- L* 79.1 a* 8.1 b* 13.7
- Hue angle hab
- 59.3° Chroma C* 15.9
- Undertone
- Neutral Neutral · balanced
- ITA° Depth
- 64.8° Very light · Chardon 1991
Complexion · Teint View the piece
A complexion shade is meant to match, so these are ranked by ΔE00 colour difference, smallest first — a quantity that can actually be measured.
#03 Beige Nu
Neutral · balanced
1.70
ΔE00
Very close ΔE00 1–2 — a difference you are likely to notice only when the two are held directly side by side.
#02 Rose Ivoire
Cool · rosy base
2.43
ΔE00
#01 Porcelaine Froide
Cool · rosy base
6.33
ΔE00
#04 Sable Chaud
Warm · golden base
7.91
ΔE00
#05 Caramel Miel
Warm · golden base
15.82
ΔE00
#06 Espresso Couture
Neutral · balanced
33.69
ΔE00
Lips · Lèvres View the piece
A lip colour is meant to contrast, not to match. The order below comes from a colour heuristic the maison sets itself (hue direction plus lightness gap); it is not an industry standard. The ΔE00 figures are still real measurements, given for reference only.
#405 Cannelle Nue
Coral · warm
27
ΔL* · Hue 33°
Hue angle 33° against a suggested 20°; lightness gap ΔL* 27 against a target of 28. The closer both are, the higher this shade ranks. (Reference ΔE00 25.0 — lip and cheek colour is meant to sit apart from your skin, so a larger figure here is not a worse result.)
#518 Rose Givrée
Blue-leaning · cool
21
ΔL* · Hue 12°
#520 Rose Mythique
True red · neutral
39
ΔL* · Hue 22°
#312 Pêche Couchant
Coral · warm
23
ΔL* · Hue 38°
#610 Moka Profond
Coral · warm
41
ΔL* · Hue 34°
#808 Cassis Noir
Blue-leaning · cool
51
ΔL* · Hue 8°
Cheeks & highlight · Joues View the piece
Cheek colour works to a smaller lightness gap, and is ordered by the same colour rule the maison sets itself rather than by any measurable standard.
#05 Terracotta Feuille
Coral · warm
21
ΔL* · Hue 44°
Hue angle 44° against a suggested 20°; lightness gap ΔL* 21 against a target of 12. The closer both are, the higher this shade ranks. (Reference ΔE00 19.7 — lip and cheek colour is meant to sit apart from your skin, so a larger figure here is not a worse result.)
#02 Pivoine Aurore
Coral · warm
-1
ΔL* · Hue 41°
#03 Abricot Ambré
Golden · warm
5
ΔL* · Hue 54°
#04 Or Chaud
Golden · warm
9
ΔL* · Hue 68°
#01 Perle Champagne
Golden · warm
-9
ΔL* · Hue 72°
This CIEDE2000 implementation is checked pair by pair against the 34 reference values published by Sharma, Wu & Dalal (2005), and agrees with every one of them to four decimal places.
Revue de Mode
Journal · From the runway, and the formulation behind it
Written by our perfumers, formulation writers and runway artists — clear about what a product does, and just as clear about what it does not.
Backstage Lips at Paris Couture 2026: Where Velvet Mist Ends and Satin Begins
L'Art des Lèvres Veloutées : Les Coulisses de la Fashion Week
Backstage at this spring’s couture shows, makeup artists abandoned the sharp lip line almost in unison, in favour of an edge that looks as though the morning got to it first.
The Barrier, Ceramides, and the Things Nobody Should Promise
La Barrière Cutanée : Ce Qu’On Peut et Ne Peut Pas Promettre
Skincare does less than the advertising says and more than the sceptics believe. The line falls at the stratum corneum.
A Perfumer’s Notebook: The Silence Between Rose and Fir
Les Secrets d'un Nez : Conversation entre Rose et Cèdre
Scent is the most private key memory has. And the hardest part of a good perfume is almost always deciding what to leave out.