Officine Universelle Buly
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Beauty |
| Founded 📆 | 2014 |
| Founders 👔 | Ramdane Touhami and Victoire de Taillac-Touhami |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Paris , France |
Number of locations | 25 stores (2020) |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
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Officine Universelle Buly is a French beauty brand, which was first founded by Jean-Vincent Bully in 1803 on rue Saint-Honoré in Paris, and then revived by the French couple, Ramdane Touhami and Victoire de Taillac-Touhami in 2014[1].
It’s headquartered in Paris, France, and has more than 25 stores around the globe and counting, known for its Parisian apothecary style, rich heritage, unique personalization, natural ingredients, and products collected and inspired from around the world.
The brand sells perfumes, scented candles, soaps, plant oils, and other beauty products for body, face and hair, as well as accessories.
History
Early years
At the beginning of the 19th century, a merchant perfumer, Claude Bully, invented a vinaigre de toilette[2], a vinegar-based fragrance designed to fight body odors, cure disease, and nourish the skin, which later rewrote the perfume industry and popular beauty care, even though it was first reserved for aristocrats.
Then his son, Jean-Vincent Bully[3], sought validation from doctors and scientists, bringing further recognition to the brand, while the vinegar was granted two patents in 1809, another for improvements in 1814, with products showcased at the 1823, 1827, and 1849 World Fairs, as well as at the Great Exhibition in London (in 1851)[4]. At its height, Pêle-Mêle in 1904 claimed that “the best vinaigre de toilette … bears the name of Bully vinegar.” Meanwhile, in the summer of 1937, Le Figaro mentioned in its Beauty section: “Don't forget to buy a bottle of … Bully vinegar, the object of world renown for nearly a century.”
After the high came the low: Bully lost his shop due to a riot in the whirlwind of a revolution, and then had to sell his business “for a trifling sum”[5], after which the perfumer died in poverty. His fate is mirrored in Cesar Birotteau, the eponymous protagonist in Balzac’s novel, Scenes from Parisian Life from The Human Comedy.
The stores of Claude and Jean-Vincent Bully remained but a memory, yet a "Vinagre Aromatico Tipo de Bully" with the very same formula continued to exist in Latin America due to the vagaries of licensing; the work of the Bully family had endured, except outside the borders of France.
Creation of Officine Universelle Buly 1803
Rediscovered by Ramdane Touhami and Victoire de Taillac-Touhami[6], the brand was revived to what is now known as Officine Universelle Buly, or Buly 1803 in short, an emporium of beauty secrets from all around the world.
The first Buly shop was established in 2014[7], at 6 rue Bonaparte, 75006, Paris, and has seen rapid expansion around the world ever since.
As of March 2021, Buly 1803 has 25 shops globally, in cities such as Paris[8], Hong Kong[9], New York[10], San Francisco, London, Tokyo[11][12], Kyoto, Seoul, Taipei, Osaka, etc.
Business structure
Officine Universelle Buly is a family-owned company, managed by the duo Ramdane Touhami, the manager, and Victoire de Taillac-Touhami, the head of communication and the spokesperson. The brand now operates in 7 countries in the world and is rapidly expanding.
Products
Officine Universelle Buly carries a wide range of beauty products for body, face, hair and home[13], with more than 800 variants amassed from around the world. Most of them bear a traditional French name[14], honoring its commitment to old beauty recipes but combined with innovative cosmetic techniques, such as eau triple, the brand’s water-based perfume, containing 0 alcohol.
Collaboration
Le Louvre Museum
2019 has seen an unprecedented collaboration between the Louvre museum and O.U.B.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21], with 8 perfumers each selecting 8 art pieces as an inspiration for 8 new fragrances, namely:
“The Valpinçon Bather” by Daniela Andrier
“Winged Victory of Samothrace” by Aliénor Massenet
“Nymph with a Scorpion” by Annick Ménardo
“Joseph the Carpenter” by Sidonie Lancesseur
“Venus de Milo” by Jean-Christophe Hérault
“Grand Odalisque” by Domitille Michalon-Bertier
“The Lock” by Delphine Lebau
“Conversation in a Park” by Dorothée Piot
Some of the scents are also available in candles, postcards, as well as soap sheets.
References
- ↑ https://www.matchesfashion.com/en-fr/womens/designers/officine-universelle
- ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/age-old-beauty-secrets-at-officine-universelle-buly-1432122599
- ↑ L'héroïsme de Bully et son vinaigre. - [83] (1847)
- ↑ Charles Robin, Histoire illustrée de l’exposition universelle.
- ↑ Eugène-Oscar Lami, Dictionnaire encyclopédique et biographique de l'industrie et des arts industriels. (The Encyclopedic and Biographical Dictionary of Industry and the Industrial Arts).
- ↑ https://on.ft.com/395M2pW
- ↑ https://www.lemonde.fr/m-styles/article/2021/01/29/un-jour-un-objet-fait-en-france-5-10-saison-2-les-flacons-buly_6068023_4497319.html
- ↑ https://www.numero.com/fr/lifestyle/numero-magazine-officine-universelle-buly-grand-cafe-tortoni-fleurs-sechees-statues-en-platre-paris-style-vintage
- ↑ https://fr.fashionnetwork.com/news/buly-s-installe-a-hong-kong,869959.html
- ↑ https://www.vogue.com/article/lofficine-universelle-buly-1803-new-york-bergdorf-goodman-ramdane-touhami-victoire-de-taillac-paris
- ↑ https://wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/skin-care/lofficine-universelle-buly-opens-tokyo-10855533/
- ↑ https://fr.fashionnetwork.com/news/Le-francais-buly-ouvre-sa-premiere-boutique-a-tokyo,813081.html
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/t-magazine/old-fashioned-beauty-products.html
- ↑ https://www.letemps.ch/lifestyle/buly-cosmetiques-laura-nostalgique
- ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/louvre-perfume-buly-scent-11561567568
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172wyj5mck30wj
- ↑ https://www.lefigaro.fr/industrie-mode/le-louvre-expose-buly-20190624
- ↑ https://www.bfmtv.com/replay-emissions/culture-et-vous/louvre-des-chefs-d-oeuvre-ont-leur-parfum_VN-201907040141.html
- ↑ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-louvre-new-perfume-collection-l-officine-universelle-buly-1803-5wtmtqpcb
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/28/t-magazine/paris-beauty-guide.html
- ↑ https://fr.fashionnetwork.com/news/L-officine-universelle-buly-s-installe-au-louvre,1115921.html
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