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Mancera

Mancera is a Parisian perfume house founded in 2008 by Pierre Montale, five years after the Montale house that bears his name. The two share a boutique at 68 rue Pierre Charron, in Paris. Mancera draws its raw materials, oud, amber, vanilla and precious woods, from the Orient, and its way of blending them from French perfumery.

Mancera perfumes

Pierre Montale’s path

Pierre Montale is a self-taught perfumer, trained in raw materials by a perfumer from Grasse. He opened Maison Sud Pacifique with his sister in 1975 and worked there for fifteen years, introducing Tahitian monoi into French perfumery.

His sister sold the brand in 1998. A trip to Saudi Arabia, where he met the royal family and discovered raw materials he had not known before, led him to oud, and he opened Montale Parfums in Paris in 2003.

Mancera, the second house

Mancera was born in 2008. Where Montale looks toward the Orient, Mancera seeks a balance between oriental tradition and Western perfumery, with vanilla as a through-line and high concentrations.

The house is run with Amélie Montale, the founder’s daughter, whose travels inform its creations. The two brands are sold side by side in the Parisian boutique, which shows both collections.

A perfumery of raw material

Oud, agarwood, structures part of the fragrances, alongside roses, leathers and gourmand notes. The juices are highly concentrated, which brings them closer to Gulf perfumery than to European eaux de toilette.

The range is broad and renews quickly, following a collection model rather than spaced-out launches. The glass bottles, plain and heavy, carry an identity of their own, distinct from that of the Montale house.