Élodie Marchand
Co-founder & Perfumer
Trained in Grasse before settling in San Francisco, Élodie composes with luminous florals and powdered orris. She believes a perfume should feel like a held breath.
La Maison
A house built on the memory of a feeling
Our story
Limerence began with a bundle of letters found in a San Francisco antique shop — a correspondence between two lovers spanning nearly twenty years, faintly scented still with rose and ink.
Our founders, perfumers Élodie Marchand and Julien Arceneaux, spent a winter reading them. They were struck by how each letter seemed to belong to a distinct emotional season: the electric first encounter, the ache of distance, the quiet hope, the final surrender.
The collection that followed is our attempt to bottle those seasons. Each fragrance is anchored to a precise moment and place in the city we call home, composed from the finest naturals in the world, and finished by hand in our atelier in Jackson Square.
The Noses
Two perfumers, one story
Julien Arceneaux
Co-founder & Perfumer
Raised between New Orleans and the Bay Area, Julien is drawn to the darker materials — oud, smoke, leather — and to fragrances that leave a mark.
“We do not make perfume to be noticed. We make it to be remembered.”Explore the Collection