Raw Materials & Notes

At L.T. Piver, nature has been our raw material since 1774. Verbena, iris, ylang-ylang, sandalwood, tonka bean: our fragrances draw the essence of their richness from natural ingredients, cultivated and distilled according to the most traditional methods. Yet the history of perfume holds a few turning points, moments when a scientific discovery answers an impasse that nature itself imposes. The emergence of heliotropin, at the end of the 19th century, is the most striking example of this, and one of the rare exceptions our house has ever knowingly made.