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Our Story
THE ESSENCE OF SERVIETTE
Founded in 2024 in New York City, Serviette began with a simple truth: our relationship with "good taste" is both deeply personal and inherently social—a dance between individual identity and cultural currency.
THE FOUNDER
Canadian perfumer Trey Taylor graduated from Central Saint Martins and is now a New York City-based cultural zealot, having made a career telling stories for blue-chip brands and cataloging the next generation of actors and musicians as a former editor at The Face, Interview, Fantastic Man, and Dazed. As both the perfumer and founder of Serviette, he is primarily self-taught, but has studied under independent perfumer Marissa Zappas.
THE NAME
“Serviette” was originally labeled as “non-U” by an academic linguist, indicating its association with the upwardly mobile middle class, while “napkin” was considered “U,” linked to the upper class. In the distinction between "napkin" and "serviette" lies a world of social coding—a metaphor for the invisible rules of taste and status, chosen with both reverence and irony.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
We believe taste is about perception, not possession. Each handcrafted Serviette fragrance serves as a portal to explore cultural sophistication while questioning its foundations.
