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Papier d'Arménie

Papier d'Arménie, in tune with the times since 1885!

It all begins with "tears" of resin. Benzoin, a resin from the aliboufier, a tree grown in Laos, reaches Montrouge as amber droplets, then dissolves in a solution for several weeks before its perfume extracts are added. The solution, whose composition remains secret, soaks into a blotting-type paper, sheet by sheet, by hand. Six months and at least twelve steps go into a single booklet.
Behind the gesture lies a story born in the late nineteenth century. Travelling in Armenia, Auguste Ponsot noticed that homes and sickrooms were scented and freshened by burning benzoin. With his partner, the pharmacist Henri Rivier, they worked out the formula to extract the benzoin and chose paper as its support, able to smoulder slowly, without a flame. The house has never left Montrouge since.
Five generations on, Arnaud Schvartz took over from his mother in 2025 at the head of Papier d'Arménie®, where around ten artisans share three trades. Some have stayed as long as thirty years. Around the iconic Tradition booklet came two new scented booklets (Arménie and Rose), created in 2006 and 2009 by the renowned creator-perfumer Francis Kurkdjian.
Plant-based wax candles in the three scents (Tradition, Arménie and Rose), also devised by the perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, and ceramic burners round out the range offered by Papier d'Arménie®.

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Why we love this brand

PAPIER D'ARMENIE® is a French family business, founded in 1885. For more than 140 years, its singular products have been made by hand near Paris. Blending tradition, heritage and elegance, the brand stands as a symbol of the French art of living.

Few home fragrances can claim six months of artisanal making for an object known to 70% of French people.

Here, the same family descended from its creator Henri Rivier has carried on the tradition of the gesture since 1885, from benzoin to paper soaked by hand, without giving in to mass production.

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The burnable booklets

This is the product that started everything. A Papier d'Arménie booklet holds, for the Tradition, twelve sheets of three strips of benzoin-soaked paper. The ritual is fixed: tear off a strip, fold it concertina-style, light it and blow out the flame. Stand it on its edge so it smoulders on its own, without an open flame, releasing its scented smoke. Three fragrances coexist: the vanilla and balsamic benzoin of Tradition, the woody, spiced blend of Arménie, and the more fruity, delicately honeyed note of Rose. Expect a few euros for a booklet, more for the vintage gift boxes and the Boîte 1900, which revive the house's period artwork.

Papier d'Arménie® booklets can be used all year round to scent your home and create a sense of wellbeing.

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The scented candles

Born in 2006 from an encounter with the perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, the candles carry the booklet's world into another form. In plant-based wax with a cotton wick, produced in Grasse (France) by a master candlemaker and with around fifty hours of burn time, they take up the brand's three scents. Each works its own palette: the Arménie version, for instance, cedar, cinnamon leaf, sage and Provence lavender. You light them for a few hours, snuff them out, and the warm wax keeps diffusing the iconic scents of Papier d'Arménie®.

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The burners and gift boxes

Beyond the paper, the house tends to the object and to memory. The burner, created in 1996, keeps its triangular shape topped with a small dome: you place the lit strip inside, and the scent escapes through the top. Available in ceramic or terracotta and in five colours, from white to carmine red, it settles into the decor rather than dominating it. Alongside, the Vintage gift boxes and the Boîte 1900 replay the brand's old iconography, medals and diplomas included, around booklets tucked into their case. This is the heritage side of Papier d'Arménie, to give or to keep.

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Brand Information
Papier d'Arménie

Origin
Made in France
Website languages
French (original content), with automatic translation offered in English, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Swedish and Chinese.
Shipping
Orders ship via La Poste, Colissimo or DPD to a pickup point. An order is prepared within three working days at most; Colissimo, used for fragile items or above a certain amount, delivers within 48 hours in France once prepared.
Returns
A 14 working-day right of withdrawal applies from delivery, with return costs borne by the customer and notified to Customer Service beforehand. In the event of a delivery error or exchange, the house covers the return costs.

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