Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Travel has long inspired scents, whether to wear as perfumes or to fragrance our homes. One spritz of Sol de Janeiro ’s Brazil Crush Cheirosa 59 Mist, for example, will transport you to Copacabana Beach with its tropical peach, mango and coconut notes. At the same time, Acqua di Parma ’s Arancia di Capri candle, with its mandarin and lemon scent, will whisk you off to the blue seas of Capri, no matter how cold it is at home.
No.04 Bois de Balincourt, inspired toy Marie's family home. (Credit: Maison Louis Marie) When clean fragrance brand, Maison Louis Marie , launched in 2012, its founder, Marie Du Petit Thouars, revealed how it was her own family history, rooted in botanical history and exploration, that inspired the brand.
Her ancestor Louis Marie Aubert du Petit Thouars was a pioneer in French botanical history and, during the French Revolution, Louis Marie was exiled to Madagascar, La Reunion and the Mauritius islands. There, he discovered a vast array of plant specimens, collecting over 2,000 to bring back to France ten years later. Home again at last, he was elected as a member of the prestigious Académie des Sciences.
Some 200 years later, and inspired to build upon the botanical roots of her family, Marie Du Petit Thouars founded fragrance and lifestyle brand Maison Louis Marie with six initial scents. Marie Du Petit Thouars, founder & creative director of Maison Louis Marie. (Credit: Lee Matthews) Speaking e.