About Parfums 06130
Growing up in Grasse, the heart of French perfumery, Nicolas-Gabriel Chabert—the founder of Parfums Zéro Six Cent-Trente (Parfums 06130)—was surrounded by fragrance legends. From a young age, he evaluated his family’s creations, learning to appreciate the nuances of fine perfume. His uncle, Jacques Chabert, crafted icons such as Samsara for Jean-Paul Guerlain and Cristalle for Chanel, while his father, Claude Chabert, created a wide array of exquisite fragrances, including L’Eau des Incroyables, a French Revolution commemorative scent for L’Artisan Parfumeur.
At 15, Nicolas took his first summer job in a historic perfume house, Cavallier Frères—an 18th-century company still operating within the Robertet factory grounds in Grasse. There, he learned to blend formulas under the guidance of master perfumers and observed every stage of creation. He studied raw material extraction techniques—processing vetiver, oakmoss, and iris—gaining reverence for the craft and the region’s natural wealth.
Mid-Twentieth Century
1972
Grasse, The World’s Capital of Perfume
Nicolas founded Parfums 06130 with an unwavering devotion to quality and artistic expression. His childhood friend, Raphaël Haury, composed the brand’s first fragrances, Cèdre and Yuzu Rouge, as unisex eaux de toilette, setting a refined standard from the outset. Nicolas developed the brand’s identity and cultivated relationships with storied retail partners, including Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman, Louis Boston, Forty Five Ten, Aedes de Venustas, and Parfumerie Hyazinth in Switzerland.
In 2019, Parfums 06130 unveiled an Eau de Parfum collection composed by Master Perfumer Jacques Chabert and produced in his private factory, Fragrances Essentielles. These scents reflect opulence and nuance, each capturing a moment of stillness, like the golden hush of a Mediterranean twilight.
The present day
The Philosopher’s Stone Elixir
Since 2021, Nicolas has devoted himself wholly to the meticulous art of creation, exquisite fragrances through endless hours of blending and reflection—an alchemy of vision and devotion. Like his family before him, he seeks not the merely good, but the rare and the extraordinary: raw materials of incomparable quality, his creations constantly evolving as he evaluates and refines, never compromising, always returning to the work until he achieves harmony, writing and rewriting each formula, blending and testing every trial by his own care.
From this pursuit, four perfumes have slowly emerged—extraordinary not only in the nobility of their components, but in the balance of their souls.
Alongside these fragrances, Nicolas has conceived a base for solid perfumes unlike any other—crafted exclusively from organic beeswax, almond oil, jojoba oil, and shea butter. Where others rely on synthetics and petroleum derivatives, his remain pure, elemental, and alive. Even the packaging is shaped only from paper, leaving behind no glass, plastic, or metal—an offering both to beauty and to the earth.
His research extends further still, into the mysteries of regeneration. The Philosopher’s Stone Elixir, refined over a lifetime of study, embodies ancestral knowledge of alchemy, botany, and esoteric science. This rare ointment nourishes the skin with organic botanicals, restoring its vitality, softening the traces of time, replenishing vitality, and turning back the quiet tides of age. It is both remedy and revelation—an intimate communion between body, spirit, and the eternal pursuit of youth.
Parfums 06130 is more than a house of fragrance: it is a sanctuary where craft and poetry entwine, and where each creation—perfume, candle, organic soap, and elixir—opens a window into the invisible world, luminous with the soul of Grasse.
