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A FAMILY STORY: AVANT-GARDE AS HERITAGE
Le Jardin Retrouvé is a French family-run haute perfumery house founded in 1975 around the notion of the garden, a universal symbol of serenity, well-being, beauty, poetry and comfort in an uncertain world.
In 2017, the house was relaunched by Michel Gutsatz, son of the founders, and artist Clara Feder. Le Jardin Retrouvé’s mission is to create a true sense of well-being through its perfumes and scented products.
To achieve this, all fragrance formulas have been created by two renowned in-house perfumers: Yuri Gutsatz (1914–2005) and Maxence Moutte.
LE JARDIN RETROUVÉ IN A NUTSHELL
In 1975, Yuri Gutsatz, a renowned master perfumer who rejected the constraints of marketing-driven traditional perfumery, became the first perfumer to found his own Maison.
In 2017, Clara Feder and Michel Gutsatz relaunched Le Jardin Retrouvé with an environmentally conscious vision, while preserving Yuri’s delicate olfactory formulas, his processes, and his historical suppliers.
A PRECIOUS LEGACY
Yuri left us thousands of lab trials, his formulas dating back to 1935, his commitment to the French Society of Perfumers, where he served as vice-president, and his decisive role in the creation of the Osmothèque (the world’s largest archive of perfume formulas).
From Yuri to Arlette
We also owe Yuri hundreds of poems about Russia and about perfume, all preserved by his wife Arlette. She was the one behind the 1975 logo, the product collection, and the worldwide commercial development of the brand.
A BEAUTIFUL SLEEP
After Yuri’s death in 2005 and Arlette’s in 2012, Le Jardin Retrouvé entered a dormant phase. In 2017, their son Michel and his wife Clara Feder, together with perfumer Maxence Moutte, decided to bring the house back to life and give it a new momentum. As the notion of the Garden grew in importance, the brand identity was reworked, as were the formulas, to align them with the values of the universal Garden, synonymous with well-being and kindness towards oneself and the environment.
AN EXCEPTIONAL ENCOUNTER
Perfumer Maxence Moutte approached Michel and Clara at a wedding and expressed his admiration for Yuri's work. Years later, when it came time to relaunch Le Jardin Retrouvé, the two founders called upon him, as neither of them were perfumers. Thanks to this encounter, the fragrances were able to come back to life and a friendship was born. Maxence would go on to create 4 perfumes for the house: Mousse Arashiyama (2021), Osmanthe Liu Yuan (2023), Violette Kew (2024), and in 2025 Immortelle Babylone.
A FAMILY COINCIDENCE
Yuri’s father, David Gutsatz, was a chemical engineer in Saint Petersburg and, far from his son who had settled in France, was working on innovative formulas for synthetic ingredients essential to modern perfumery. Much later, Yuri happened to learn that father and son—each unaware of what the other was doing—were, at the very same time (in 1934), making their own visionary contributions to the world of perfumery they both loved so deeply.
A never ending story
So much has changed since 2017! Step by step, Clara and Michel, together with their team, have worked to build a vibrant, joyful brand that fully reflects the warm, restorative atmosphere they inherited. Today, they are proud that Le Jardin Retrouvé won the 2022 Victoires de la Beauté in the Clean category, and even prouder to offer their dear customers high-quality scented products that are sustainable and respectful of everyone’s well-being and of our beautiful planet.
A story driven by lasting commitments
Discover our values, our eco-responsible approach, and our vision of well-being through our commitments.
