De Gabor Paris

De Gabor Paris is a French niche perfume house based in Paris, founded in 2019 by the perfumer Gabriel Gabor [3]. It specializes in extrait de parfum, the most concentrated form of fragrance, and describes itself as a "parfumeur-créateur" house — one built around the perfumer himself rather than a marketing team. The company frames each scent as a personal composition carrying Gabor's own olfactive signature.

The house is small and independently run, with the founder positioned as both creator and manager. It remains active: new releases have continued into the 2020s, and its fragrances are sold through selected niche perfumeries in more than twenty countries.

De Gabor traces its identity to its founder. Gabriel Gabor trained as a perfumer in Grasse, on the Côte d'Azur, the region long associated with French perfumery, and created his first perfume in 2010 [3]. In 2014 he took part in the Christian Dior perfumer program at the Grasse Institute of Perfumery, where, according to the company, he developed a feminine niche fragrance to a Dior marketing brief.

Before founding his own house, Gabor worked for the MG International Fragrance Company, a partner of Firmenich, and became a member of the French Perfumer Society in Versailles [3]. The brand says he has also created fragrances for designers and actors and run olfactive workshops for younger perfumers.

An authorized retailer describes Gabor as a "certified creative perfumer with 13 years of experience" who began his artisanal work in 2010 [9]; other brand-supplied copy repeated by third parties gives the figure as 16 years [8]. The difference appears to reflect the same claim written at different dates rather than a genuine dispute, and the 2019 founding date is consistent across sources.

Gabor launched De Gabor in 2019 in Paris [8]. According to the company, the goal was to establish a genuinely niche house managed by the perfumer himself, with a collection reflecting his individual creative vision.

De Gabor positions the perfumer, rather than the brand or its raw materials, as the center of the work. The company calls this the "real niche in the forest of niche perfume brands" — the professional perfumer-creator — and places itself in a "Parfumeur-Créateur" category. It compares a finished perfume to a painting, describing harmony of composition as more important than any single dominant material.

All fragrances are presented as extrait de parfum, and the house stresses long-lasting, individually composed scents built around a personal olfactive signature.

The first perfume De Gabor released was Darling, followed shortly by Genders [8]. The catalogue has since grown to around a dozen fragrances, including Leather Forever, Darling Rouge, Astronaut, Geisha Diva and Alchermes, the last introduced in 2024 as an oriental fougère [8]. Sandalwood and oud are the materials the house highlights most, and its scents are grouped into named collections such as the Gold Laurel and Astro lines.

De Gabor operates a "numerus clausus," or limited-number, policy: each year only a restricted quantity of bottles is hand-filled in France, and every bottle carries a registered serial number and QR code intended to track it before and after sale [6]. The company presents this scarcity as a way to control availability per region. Its ingredient listings state that the fragrances conform to the current guidelines of the International Fragrance Association (IFRA) and the standards of the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM) [4].

The fragrances sit at a high price point — an authorized retailer lists 50 ml formats between about €225 and €390 [9] — and are sold both directly through the brand's website and through authorized niche perfumeries.

Before the house was founded, Gabor's sandalwood composition Darling was selected among the ten best sandalwood creations at a competition held during the World Perfumery Congress in Miami in 2016 [3]. His oud collection was shown that same year at Beauty World Middle East. Under the De Gabor name, the house has since exhibited at the Esxence niche-fragrance fair in Milan in 2022 and 2023.

De Gabor is active. It has continued to release new fragrances — most recently Alchermes in 2024 — and its perfumes are distributed through selected niche perfumeries across Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and beyond. It remains a small, founder-led house rather than part of a larger group; no parent company or acquisition history is on record.