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Maison Francis Kurkdjian

Francis Kurkdjian wrote Le Mâle for Gaultier at twenty-five; in 2009 he opened his own Paris maison to work without a brief. The house style is unmistakable — luminous, weightless structures of immense technical precision, where a single radiant idea is polished until it glows. Baccarat Rouge 540, commissioned for the crystal house's anniversary and later released to the world, distilled that approach into one of the defining scents of the century so far.