We do not make fragrance for everyone.
We make fragrance for those who understand — those for whom scent is not accessory but identity, not luxury but language.
Six cities. Six centuries. One house.
— Arthur Cukier, Founder
The Collection
Six Extraits · Six Civilisations · 2,500 Units Each
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The First Pillar
Rarity
Each fragrance is strictly limited to 2,500 units. Not a marketing number — a covenant. When they are gone, they are gone. The 75ml bottle and its platinum membership card will never be produced again. Only refills remain, for those already within.
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The Second Pillar
Belonging
Our members recognise each other by scent. Across cities, across languages, across cultures — a silent signal understood by those who wear it. The platinum card is not a loyalty programme. It is an introduction to a world that was always there, simply waiting for you to arrive.
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The Third Pillar
Legacy
We draw from civilisations that defined culture itself: Rome, Babylon, Chang'an, Baghdad, Paris, London. The greatest cities at the height of their splendour. These are not themes. They are ancestries. Each bottle is a correspondence across time.
The Vault
Membership by platinum card only
Your platinum card — included with every 75ml bottle — opens a world of privileges, experiences, and connections available nowhere else. Tap to enter.
"I have made fragrances for Borsalino. I have lived in Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Tel Aviv, London, New York. Each city left something in me — a texture, a memory, a particular quality of light."
Maison Cukier was born not from a business plan but from an obsession with legacy — with the idea that the right fragrance, worn by the right person, in the right city, becomes part of history itself.
Four exclusive pop-up events, each preceded by an invitation-only launch party. Applied for, not booked. Selected for, not purchased. The room will know itself.
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February 2027
Paris
Le Marais · Private venue TBA
02
April 2027
London
Mayfair · Private venue TBA
03
June 2027
Dubai
DIFC · Private venue TBA
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September 2027
Rome
Centro Storico · Private venue TBA
The Collection
Six Extraits. Six Civilisations.
Each bottle corresponds to a city at the height of its splendour — a historical moment crystallised in fragrance. Each is limited to 2,500 units worldwide, never to be restocked.
VI
Currently accepting enquiries — Official launch January 2027. Join our waitlist for early access.
All fragrances are 75ml Extrait de Parfum · Each limited to 2,500 units · Never restocked
Packaging by Garance Creative · Quilted crystal flacon · Mushroom dome cap · Burgundy leather écrin
2,500 units — never restocked
Olfactory Composition
Opening
Heart
Base
Platinum Membership Card included with 75ml · NFC chip + alphanumeric code · Unlocks full Vault access · Non-transferable to new productions
75ml Extrait de Parfum
€1,000
Includes platinum membership card
10ml Extrait de Parfum
€150
No membership card included
75ml limited to 2,500 units per fragrance. Never restocked. Membership card cannot be reissued.
10ml available without restriction — same crystal design, no card, always available.
Bottle: Quilted crystal, mushroom dome cap · Écrin: Burgundy leather, velvet interior, platinum card pocket · By Garance Creative · Blockchain-authenticated, Polygon/ERC-721
Members' Vault
Present Your Platinum Card
or enter your code
Your platinum card code is found inside your 75ml écrin
Members' Vault
A World Within a World
Privileges for those who were found
Three pillars of membership, unlocked progressively as your collection grows. The more fragrances you hold, the deeper your access.
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First Fragrance
The Initiated
One bottle opens the door
Full Vault access via NFC card or alphanumeric code
Private Members' App — cultural events, private dinners, museum evenings, atelier visits
Concierge service — cultural recommendations in any city
Complimentary 10ml of any fragrance from the collection
Connection by cultural affinity — members curated by interest and city
Access to in-app secondary market for authenticated bottle trading
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Three Fragrances
The Circle
Three bottles deepen the trust
Everything in The Initiated
Creator Access — participate in future fragrance development, voting on upcoming notes and formulations
Refill discount — members' pricing on all future refills
Priority invitation to all pop-up events and launch parties
Ambassador nomination rights — invite one person personally known to you
Cultural concierge — private dinners, gallery openings, exclusive atelier access
III
All Six Fragrances
The Inner Circle
The full collection. The full world.
Everything in The Circle
Lalique Grand Prize eligibility — match the same edition number across all six bottles to claim a unique 375ml Lalique crystal engraved with your name
Private access to Arthur Cukier — exclusive dinners, atelier visits, direct correspondence
Founding member status — your name inscribed in Maison Cukier's founding records
First access to all future releases and collaborations
Unlimited concierge access across all cities
The Lalique Grand Prize
A Trophy Unique in the World
Collect all six fragrances sharing the same edition number across the collection — and receive a unique 375ml Lalique crystal vessel, handmade in Wingen-sur-Moder, engraved with your name and edition number. There will only ever be one for each matching set.
Members at The Circle tier may nominate one person they know personally. Not an online connection. Not a follower. Someone they have sat across a table from, shared a city with, experienced culture alongside.
Selected nominees receive a complimentary fragrance. We value vibe over follower count. Cultural alignment over audience size. This is not influencer marketing. It is curation by those who already understand.
Hold three or more fragrances to unlock Circle tier access
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Open the Members' App and access the Ambassador section
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Write a personal introduction — who they are, how you know them, why they belong
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If selected, they receive a complimentary fragrance — chosen for them by the house
Maison Cukier
Bonsoir,
Inner Circle Member
Tonight in Paris
Galerie Perrotin — Members' Evening
Your Collection
3 of 6 Fragrances
Matched Member
Cultural affinity: Architecture, Jazz, Tokyo
Concierge
Message the house →
The Members' App
A Private World in Your Pocket
For those who belong, wherever they are.
The Maison Cukier app is not available in the App Store. It is accessed only by platinum cardholders. It is not a loyalty programme. It is a private social and cultural platform — curated by scent, structured by depth.
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Cultural Events
Private dinners. Museum evenings. Atelier visits. Gallery openings. Opera nights. Each city's cultural programme, curated for members with access that money alone cannot buy.
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Connection by Affinity
Meet members who share your cultural sensibility — not your Instagram following. Connections curated by hobbies, cities, languages, professional world, and aesthetic alignment. No dating language. Cultural and professional only.
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Concierge
Message the house directly. Restaurant reservations, private drivers, exclusive access requests — your concierge knows the cities you love and the standard you expect.
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Secondary Market
Authenticated in-app trading for all six fragrances. Blockchain transfer of NFC card + ownership certificate. Escrow-protected. Commission to Maison Cukier from each transaction.
Access
Available to Platinum Cardholders Only
The app cannot be downloaded without a verified platinum card. Your membership card is your key — NFC tap activates access automatically on first use.
Members recognise the inspiration of each scent through their knowledge of history — what the nobility of each civilisation wore, how power and refinement expressed themselves through fragrance across the centuries.
The Historical Lineage
Each perfume carries a story and a universe
From Rome in the 2nd century — inspired by the fragrances worn by Julius Caesar — to the distinguished French nobility of the Belle Époque and the gentleman of London in the 20th century, each extrait de parfum draws on the historical record of what power and elegance smelled like at the height of each civilisation.
Those who wear Maison Cukier understand immediately what they are expressing. And those who recognise it understand immediately who they are meeting.
I
Rome II — 2nd Century CE
The fragrance of imperial Rome — inspired by the resins, herbs, and florals worn at the apex of the Empire. Julius Caesar. The Pantheon. The certainty of permanence.
II
Baghdad IX — 9th Century CE
The House of Wisdom. The Abbasid court. The Golden Age of Islamic culture — where rose attar and oud were worn by scholars and caliphs alike as symbols of learning and refinement.
III
Paris XIX — 19th Century
The scent of the French nobility at Versailles and the Opéra — aldehydes, iris, and oakmoss worn with absolute conviction that this was the capital of human civilisation.
IV
London XX — 20th Century
The English gentleman — Savile Row, the country house, the club. A fragrance that never announces itself. English lavender and oakmoss worn with the confidence of those who have nothing to prove.
What membership means
A perfume that cannot be replicated
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Unreplicable by Design
Each fragrance uses exceptionally rare ingredients at concentrations that cannot be found elsewhere — by intention, not accident. The cost of the raw materials alone makes imitation impossible. What you wear cannot be copied.
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Your Privacy, Your Choice
In the community, you decide exactly what you share and what remains private. Your profile is yours to build at your own pace. No data is shared without your explicit consent. The house believes that discretion is the first form of luxury.
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A Life in the Room
Access to in-person events, launch parties, private gatherings with the perfumer, and cultural evenings curated for members. These are not conferences. They are the kind of evenings people remember for years.
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Meet the Perfumer
Members are invited to exclusive sessions with Arthur Cukier — launch events, atelier visits, intimate dinners. A direct connection to the creative mind behind the house, available to no one outside the membership.
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Gifts & Surprises
Members receive exclusive gifts and access to items that are never listed publicly — limited editions, samples of future fragrances, and seasonal surprises curated personally by the house.
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Shape Future Fragrances
Collector Tier members are included in the development process of future fragrances — olfactory previews, ingredient discussions, input on the direction of new editions. You are not just a customer. You are part of the house.
The Ambassador Programme
Friends of Cukier
The most important feature of our community is entirely unique: members can submit the profile of someone they believe deserves to be a Maison Cukier ambassador — and that person may receive a complimentary fragrance, becoming a Friend of Cukier.
This has nothing to do with followers. We are not looking for reach. We are looking for the right person — wherever they are, however many people follow them.
All you need to submit is a description of who they are, one public social media profile, and a story about why they make you think of Maison Cukier. That story is everything.
Their world, their sensibility, their relationship to beauty, culture, and history. In your own words — not their CV.
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One public social media profile
Not for the audience. For context. So the house can understand how they present themselves to the world.
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The story that connects them
Why does this person make you think of Maison Cukier? What is it about them that belongs? This is the most important part of the submission.
"Vibrancy over visibility. A person of 500 genuine followers matters more to us than a person of 500,000 indifferent ones."
— Arthur Cukier
The Boutique
Shop
Official launch January 2027. Join the waitlist for early access and first allocation of 75ml bottles.
Currently waitlist only · Launch January 2027 · 75ml limited to 2,500 units per fragrance · Enter your details below to reserve priority access
Format
All formats
75ml Extrait (€1,000)
10ml Extrait (€150)
Refills (Members only)
Fragrance
All fragrances
Rome II
Babylon VII
Chang'an VIII
Baghdad IX
Paris XIX
London XX
Mood
Beautiful
Mysterious
Harmonious
Opulent
Arrogant
Bucolique
Join the Waitlist
Reserve Your Priority Access
When bottles become available in January 2027, waitlist members are contacted first. Priority is given by registration order and member tier.
We never share your data. You will be contacted only when your allocation is available.
A·C
Arthur Cukier, Founder
[Portrait photograph to be inserted]
The Founder
Arthur Cukier
Founder & Creative Director, Maison Cukier
Arthur Cukier is French by birth, and by temperament — a product of the idea that beauty requires patience, and that luxury is not a price point but a posture toward the world.
He has lived in France, China, Singapore, Israel, England, and the United States. Each city left something in him that money could not have put there: a particular quality of morning light, the weight of a doorknob in a specific neighbourhood, the way markets smell at six in the morning before any city admits to being awake.
Before founding Maison Cukier, he made fragrances for Borsalino — one of the world's oldest and most distinguished luxury houses. There he learned that the discipline of perfumery is the discipline of memory: what the nose knows, the mind keeps forever.
Maison Cukier is his answer to the question of what a fragrance house would look like if it were designed entirely from a life lived at full breadth — and intended for those who understand what that means.
A Life in Cities
France
Beginning
Born in France, where the relationship between elegance and restraint is not taught but absorbed. The education of a particular kind of aesthetic seriousness.
China
Shanghai · Beijing
The understanding that luxury in the East is older than most Western concepts allow. The discipline of tea ceremony. The patience of lacquer. The architecture of deliberate beauty.
Singapore
The Crossroads
Where cultures do not dilute each other but sharpen against each other. A city that demands that you know who you are, because everyone around you knows exactly who they are.
Israel
Tel Aviv
A city of extraordinary energy and audacity. Where history is not archive but present tense. Where the Mediterranean light teaches you something about saturation and directness.
England
London
The birthplace of the 20th century's cultural vocabulary. Bespoke tailoring. The eccentric tradition of taking quality personally. The peculiarly English belief that the best things should not announce themselves.
USA
New York
The city that tests every other city's assumptions. Where ambition is not a flaw. Where scale demands clarity. Where Maison Cukier's future — New York and Miami, 2028 — will be written.
Borsalino
The Craft
Fragrance creation for one of the world's oldest luxury houses. The apprenticeship in restraint: what to leave out matters as much as what to include. The nose as instrument of autobiography.
Paris, 2025
Maison Cukier
Six fragrances. Six civilisations. 2,500 units each. For those who have also lived enough to understand what scent carries when language fails it.
On Maison Cukier
"I didn't want to make another luxury fragrance. I wanted to make a world that a certain kind of person would recognise — and feel, for the first time, entirely at home in."
— Arthur Cukier
Press & Media
The Press
For press enquiries, interview requests, product loans, and editorial partnerships, please contact our press office.
Forthcoming · 2027
Vogue
"The fragrance house that dares to close its doors"
Press coverage will be updated upon launch. Maison Cukier will be seeding selected international press and editors from January 2027 ahead of the Paris pop-up launch.
Forthcoming · 2027
Financial Times — How to Spend It
"Six cities, six centuries: the new map of olfactory luxury"
Maison Cukier draws from Rome, Babylon, Chang'an, Baghdad, Paris, and London — not as inspiration, but as methodology. The house that treats civilisation as raw material.
Forthcoming · 2027
Wallpaper*
"Membership, rarity, and the return of exclusion"
In an era of mass luxury, Maison Cukier makes scarcity its entire proposition. 2,500 units. No restock. No public waitlist. Just a platinum card in a burgundy leather box.
Forthcoming · 2027
Monocle
"The passport in your pocket: Maison Cukier's geography of scent"
Arthur Cukier has lived in six countries. He has distilled the lessons of each into a fragrance designed for people who understand what it means to belong — and choose — to many places at once.
Forthcoming · 2027
Numéro
"Un parfum n'est pas un produit. C'est une langue."
Interview with Arthur Cukier on the philosophy behind Maison Cukier — to be published in February 2027 ahead of the Paris pop-up. Available in French and English editions.
Forthcoming · 2027
Robb Report
"The Lalique Grand Prize: a trophy you cannot buy"
Collect all six fragrances sharing the same edition number and receive a unique 375ml Lalique crystal vessel engraved with your name. There will only ever be one per matched set.
Press Office
Press Enquiries
For product loans, editorial partnerships, interview requests with Arthur Cukier, or event coverage, please contact our press office. We work with a small selection of editorial partnerships each season.