Maison de cire Trudon is back under the spotlights with a whole range of high-end perfumed vegetal candles. This rebirth has been imagined and organized by Ramdane Touhami. Twelve candles have been exclusively created to celebrate this encounter and shed some light on our perfumed history. …
The several centuries old experience of Maison de cire Trudon have built the still unrivalled know-how of this waxproducing factory. Skilful and demanding, Maison de cire Trudon draws all its talent from wax craftsmen without ever ceasing to explore and innovate with the
constant aim of bringing their waxes to perfection. Maison de cire Trudon holds
a trade secret elaborated year after year.
A wax paste made out of vegetal substances, a unique mixture, miscible with any fragrance and allowing a perfect and long-lasting combustion. Benefiting from its entirely natural properties and total harmlessness, the wax is granted with a remarkable quality and a high tolerance to perfume diffusion. Although recent studies emphasize the danger in using some varieties of waxes, Maison de cire Trudon offers paraffin-free candles, candles totally devoid of any secondary mineral derived from petrochemistry. Confidential, this unique wax is made of palm oil, rice, soy and coprah. Candlewicks are weaved with pure cotton.
All these natural components are totally safe to the users. The candles contain none of the substances listed by OSPAR referred to by GreenPeace. No heavy metal, allergen nor any pesticide, enter the ingredient list. Biodegradable, the candles respect the environment. Natural and pure, the Trudon vegetal candles burn 70 hours. Their glass remains pure of burning marks usually left by mixtures made with paraffin. Maison de cire Trudon, a perfume of History for a new range of scented candles. From the ostentatious Ancien Regime to the refinement of Enlightment, from the imperial pomp to the Parisian Belle Epoque, from the Orient imagined by the painters to the surrealist games, until today : the fragrances of Maison de cire Trudon revisit “à la Française” a moment of History, shedding some light on the little legend of good taste, pleasures and wisdom. Maison de Cire Trudon presents a particularly singular candle glass. Its deep colour and its smart irregular profile. Each glass has been shaped by artisans from Vinci in Italy.
These precious skilfully puffed glasses shelter and spread the exclusive scents of Maison de cire Trudon. Each piece is unique, sporting engraved golden letters.
jeudi 1 mai 2008
HISTORY
n 1643, a salesman named Claude Trudon arrives in Paris. He soon becomes the owner of a shop on Saint-Honoré street thanks to a fruitful and happy marriage.
Among groceries, the store also provides its customers with wax, candles for any domestic usage as well as church candles to the neighbouring Saint Roch parish. The candles are home made developing and building on a specific manufacturing process.
On the eve of the reign of Louis XIV, M. Trudon establishes his first small family owned manufacture which will bear his name and will make the fortune of his heirs.
Jacques, his son takes over, becoming grocer and wax producer and joins in the Versailles
royal court in 1687 as apothecary and distiller of Queen Marie-Thérèse.
F R O M T H E B E G I N N I N G T O N O WA DA Y S
At the time, wax was under high scrutiny: carefully collected on the hive, it is bleached through a series of pure water baths that wash off all the impurities.
Dried in the open air, the wax is whitened by sunrays. When burning, the flame lights the translucent edges generating the glowing aura of the candle.
In 1737, Hierosme Trudon, heir of the family, purchases one of the most famous wax producing factories of the times that belonged to Lord Pean de Saint Gilles. Pean de Saint Gilles was then the official wax provider to the King. Drawing from the family expertise, Hierosme devotes his skills to the development of his vast factory. Skilful and very demanding, he produces a wax of very high quality, collecting it from the best hives of the kingdom trading directly with the producers. The wax is then treated with the utmost attention: it is washed with the purest water after being filtered with gypsum, guaranteeing the highest quality.
The factory also imports the finest cotton to manufacture wicks whose combustion is clean and regular: the Trudon candles, so white and so perfect, can burn for hours without crackling; their flame does not tremble nor smoke! They already were the very best of luxury…
Maison de Cire Trudon, is the provider of Louis the XIVth royal court, as well as the greatest cathedrals and churches over France. More than one hundred persons work at the time in a very large building -registered in the French inventory of historical monuments- in the city of Anthony.
Trudon had become the biggest and most beautiful wax-producing factory in the French Kingdom! In 1762, in his encyclopaedia The art of the wax producer, engineer Duhamel du Monceau, highly praises the skills of the Trudons and gives the manufacture as an example.
Its latin motto and its blazon are engraved on a stone board of the factory building: a depiction of hives and bees bordered by the saying: Deo regique laborant They work for God and for The King. Such a level of excellence will earn Charles Trudon to be appointed by Louis XIV as Earl Trudon des Ormes.
Maison Trudon still keep records of old recipe and old tools of wax whitening: roman of wrought iron, XVIIth century’s pans…the moulds used to form candles and bearing the royal blazons one can still read the following indications: Cierge paschal pour la Chapelle du Roy à Versailles, Bougies de nuit pour le Roy… “Easter candle church for the Royal Chapel in Versailles, night candle for the King”…
Trudon will carry on providing the Versailles castle until the very late moments of the monarchy: during his captivity, Louis XVI will use the candles of his royal wax manufacturer.
The blazon and the motto will be hidden under a layer of mortar to avoid the furies of the Revolution. Thanks to their wax quality, the Manufacture will survive to that hectic period. It also survived to the century that followed with the use of gas and to the birth of electricity !
The manufacture will obtain, in 1889, a golden medal at the universal exposition and other rewards for its know-how and its ever innovative knowledge. It is still today the candles furnisher of many churches, like Saint-Roch church in Paris, which burns their candles since 1643.
The manufacture distributes its products in France and abroad. It makes vegetal wax candles for the greatest French and international brands -Hermès, Cartier, Dior, Guerlain, Kenzo, etc as well as for palaces and high-grade restaurants.
Among groceries, the store also provides its customers with wax, candles for any domestic usage as well as church candles to the neighbouring Saint Roch parish. The candles are home made developing and building on a specific manufacturing process.
On the eve of the reign of Louis XIV, M. Trudon establishes his first small family owned manufacture which will bear his name and will make the fortune of his heirs.
Jacques, his son takes over, becoming grocer and wax producer and joins in the Versailles
royal court in 1687 as apothecary and distiller of Queen Marie-Thérèse.
F R O M T H E B E G I N N I N G T O N O WA DA Y S
At the time, wax was under high scrutiny: carefully collected on the hive, it is bleached through a series of pure water baths that wash off all the impurities.
Dried in the open air, the wax is whitened by sunrays. When burning, the flame lights the translucent edges generating the glowing aura of the candle.
In 1737, Hierosme Trudon, heir of the family, purchases one of the most famous wax producing factories of the times that belonged to Lord Pean de Saint Gilles. Pean de Saint Gilles was then the official wax provider to the King. Drawing from the family expertise, Hierosme devotes his skills to the development of his vast factory. Skilful and very demanding, he produces a wax of very high quality, collecting it from the best hives of the kingdom trading directly with the producers. The wax is then treated with the utmost attention: it is washed with the purest water after being filtered with gypsum, guaranteeing the highest quality.
The factory also imports the finest cotton to manufacture wicks whose combustion is clean and regular: the Trudon candles, so white and so perfect, can burn for hours without crackling; their flame does not tremble nor smoke! They already were the very best of luxury…
Maison de Cire Trudon, is the provider of Louis the XIVth royal court, as well as the greatest cathedrals and churches over France. More than one hundred persons work at the time in a very large building -registered in the French inventory of historical monuments- in the city of Anthony.
Trudon had become the biggest and most beautiful wax-producing factory in the French Kingdom! In 1762, in his encyclopaedia The art of the wax producer, engineer Duhamel du Monceau, highly praises the skills of the Trudons and gives the manufacture as an example.
Its latin motto and its blazon are engraved on a stone board of the factory building: a depiction of hives and bees bordered by the saying: Deo regique laborant They work for God and for The King. Such a level of excellence will earn Charles Trudon to be appointed by Louis XIV as Earl Trudon des Ormes.
Maison Trudon still keep records of old recipe and old tools of wax whitening: roman of wrought iron, XVIIth century’s pans…the moulds used to form candles and bearing the royal blazons one can still read the following indications: Cierge paschal pour la Chapelle du Roy à Versailles, Bougies de nuit pour le Roy… “Easter candle church for the Royal Chapel in Versailles, night candle for the King”…
Trudon will carry on providing the Versailles castle until the very late moments of the monarchy: during his captivity, Louis XVI will use the candles of his royal wax manufacturer.
The blazon and the motto will be hidden under a layer of mortar to avoid the furies of the Revolution. Thanks to their wax quality, the Manufacture will survive to that hectic period. It also survived to the century that followed with the use of gas and to the birth of electricity !
The manufacture will obtain, in 1889, a golden medal at the universal exposition and other rewards for its know-how and its ever innovative knowledge. It is still today the candles furnisher of many churches, like Saint-Roch church in Paris, which burns their candles since 1643.
The manufacture distributes its products in France and abroad. It makes vegetal wax candles for the greatest French and international brands -Hermès, Cartier, Dior, Guerlain, Kenzo, etc as well as for palaces and high-grade restaurants.
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