Mancera

Mancera is a Parisian perfume house founded in 2008, built on the knowledge of Pierre Montale — the perfumer who introduced Western perfumery to oud on a serious scale, and who had earlier brought monoi into fine fragrance. It is a family house, and its flagship boutique stands at 68 rue Pierre Charron, moments from the Champs-Élysées, shared with its sister house Montale.

The Mancera style is easy to recognise. The compositions are generous, built around vanilla, amber, precious woods and oud, and they are made to project. Vanilla in particular is the house signature, used as a warm resinous base rather than as a dessert note, and it appears across the range from the gourmands to the woods.

Two practical things set the house apart. The standard bottle is 120 ml, considerably larger than the 50 ml or 100 ml that most niche houses offer, which makes Mancera unusually good value per millilitre. And the concentrations are high, so a Mancera eau de parfum generally outlasts and outprojects an eau de parfum from a mainstream brand.

The range spans gourmand, amber, woody, marine and floral families, with the Gold, Wild Line and Xplicit collections sitting alongside the main line. Redolia carries a selected group of Mancera fragrances in the full 120 ml size. Browse them below.