Perfume has been with me ever since I was a child. I remember the perfume bottles I used to draw in the living room of the apartment I grew up in. I must have been 10 years old. My paternal grandparents arrived in Paris in the early 1950s. Of Romanian and Hungarian origins, they found their calling selling scented products and opened their first boutique in the city, near the gardens of the Palais-Royal, in 1959. The boutique was later passed down to my parents. With my grandmother, Édith, I learned about the history of perfumery and developed a taste for creation at the same time as I was getting to know myself.

BDK Parfums was born in 2016 out of a love for perfume, the result of family expertise and an irrepressible desire to provoke emotion through creation. The source of my inspiration was Paris itself: city of contrasts, where there is beauty to be found on every street corner. Today, the BDK Parfums design studio is located in the Palais- Royal district: the very place where my story began. I have surrounded myself with a young, passionate team, and together we strive to be authentic, contemporary and fearless, as much in our choice of raw materials as in the quality of our finished products.

We have chosen to collaborate with French partners and artisans for the development of each one of our creations. The closeness that we maintain with them and our promotion of French savoir-faire are important to us, and are a result of our continuous search for excellence. The bonds that form naturally between us and our perfumers are fundamental to the creation of innovative olfactory formulas that hold meaning both for us and for you. BDK Parfums was conceived as an olfactory library. Each perfume box, like the cover of a book, contains stories bound only by the limits of interpretation and imagination; memories; moments that touch us and that take us someplace else. We want to share the poetry of the places we have been; to paint the range of colors and textures that have stuck with us. People are also our muses:their characters, their auras and their lives often provide a profound source of inspiration.

We are devoted to transmitting our passion to you, and we hope that you will find a creation that reflects who you are or who you desire to be. We hope, too, that by telling you a little about our journey, we can take you away on that journey with us.

Born in Paris in 1989 son of a father of Romanian heritage and a mother born on the border of Algeria and Morocco, David Benedek grew up in the universe of perfumery. His grandparents, exiles of Transylvania, were amongst the first authorised to distribute name brand perfume such as Worth and Christian Dior in Paris in the 1950s. They will go on to specialize in sales of perfumery and luxury products to travelers discovering the French capital and open their first boutique in the 60’s on the corner of rue Royal and rue Saint Honoré. From generation to the next, the expertise was polished and shared.

David studied Economics and Management in Beijing and New York in 2010 before entering the Institut Français de la Mode in 2012, where he specialised in the universe of perfumery and cosmetics. For over a year, he learned to recognize the raw ingredients, olfactive families and their facets before perfecting his crafts of learning the necessary steps of fragrance creation. Smell, discover, recognize, he familiarised himself with the subtleties of this universe along side teams in Givaudan. With time, his passion grew and morphed into a burning desire to make this craft his career. Insitut Cinquieme Sens helped trained further and polish his olfactive universe, building block of the maison de parfums BDK Parfums.

Since the launch of BDK Parfums in June 2016 in Paris, the brand has been established in 30 countries and at 200 exclusive stores around the world, among them Le Bon Marché in Paris, Harrods in London and Harvey Nichols in Doha.

The House’s first five perfumes have proved a great success, from Bouquet de Hongrie to Pas ce Soir and Tubéreuse Impériale, as well as more recently with Rouge Smoking and Crème de Cuir. Indeed, Rouge Smoking was among the finalists at the FiFi Awards France in June 2019 in the category of Best Perfume by an Independent Niche Brand.

The launch of the two new creations, Gris Charnel and Nuit de Sable, at the end of 2019, has also been a resounding success.

Paris, the city which inspires BDK Parfums, is the House’s key symbol.
A modern olfactory library, BDK Parfums wants to continue to tell stories through both perfumes and other scented products.

The Palais-Royal district in the center of Paris is where David Benedek grew up, and it is also where the BDK Parfums office is located. It is this place,among others, that inspires him. Most of the House’s perfumes are dreamed up in his office with his team.

“(...)A city like an open-air museum, lovers come here to love each other from the four corners of the world because this beautiful metropolis offers them splendid oases of lush greenery to stroll in, like my favorite, the garden of the Palais-Royal, before they end their day with a walk along the banks of the Seine.”

BDK Parfums sees itself as an olfactory library where you can pick out a perfume just as you would a book.

Through words and through the sillage of each of its fragrances, the House tells stories bound only by the limits of interpretation and imagination.The box, which resembles the cover and binding of a book, embodies the stories, the inspirations and the olfactory intentions behind each creation. Lined up side by side, the boxes form a library of perfumes.