This year, our greetings card is not just a symbol: it embodies (r)evolution!

It reflects our renewed commitment to intensify our actions in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

In 2025, we are taking a step towards fully integrating the principles of sustainability and responsibility into everything we do.

Let’s make this a year that will flourish and shine!

We are deeply shocked and profoundly saddened by the sudden passing of Bruno Spielmann, a cherished and irreplaceable member of our team for 16 years.

Bruno Spielmann exemplified passion, commitment, and generosity. He left an enduring impression on everyone who had the privilege of working with him or knowing him.

His legacy will remain alive within our company and in the hearts of all who knew, respected, and loved him.

Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family and friends during this incredibly difficult time.

We’re celebrating a new chapter with the opening of our brand-new office in Spain, Barcelona.

A big thank you to our sales executive, Steffie, leading this exciting adventure after 3 years with us. This expansion strengthens our international presence and brings us even closer to our European clients. 

Producers, manufacturers, famous perfume houses and local officials were present at the Aromatic Fablab to explain & promote the Geographical Indication Absolue Pays de Grasse. Payan Bertrand is proud to be part of that collective effort to preserve and value our territory and our know-how ! 

In early September, Julien Astier, our Perfumery Director, was in Asia to meet our local customers and partners : Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam…A busy schedule, full of valuable experiences and promises ! Thanks to Eunice Incorporated, Viet Huong and Famous Enterprises.

Payan Bertrand supports the initiative taken by Jérôme Viaud, Mayor of Grasse, to protect the natural raw materials, so important to our industry. 

Frédéric Badie, our R&D Director, defends, in this interview, the singularity, the added value of these unique ingredients and the expertise specific to Grasse companies, recently recognised by the attribution of an Indication Geographique Absolues Pays de Grasse.

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Payan Bertrand is certified by “IG absolue Pays de Grasse“. 

This Certification aims at protecting and recognizing the unique quality of Grasse absolutes.

4 of our signature products are recognized by this label: Centifolia rose, Flouve, Mimosa and Violet leaves.

We are so pleased to welcome again ISIPCA School at Payan Bertrand !

The program included an overview of our production facilities, an olfactive session of Payan Bertrand’s signature products and a presentation of the DIY pure signature concept, headed by Frédéric Badie, R&D Director at Payan Bertrand.

Payan Bertrand on stage at the 11th CITE (Cosmetic Ingredients & Technology Exhibition) which was held in Yokohama/Japan from May 17th till 19th. Thank you to our great partners and friends of Koei Kogyo Co. Ltd for housing us on their wonderful booth.
It was the right place and perfect opportunity to show our range of natural ingredients and essential oils for cosmetic use.

Payan Bertrand organises a monthly 15 minutes safety session in each service. This is an opportunity to regularly inform employees about the various risks associated with their activities and to create an exchange in order to maintain health, safety and quality of life at work.

Various subjects are discussed, today it’s a training session on the risks of falls in our perfumery laboratory.

Payan Bertrand, Creative by Nature !

Since 1854, Payan Bertrand has been exploring the very best of nature in order to offer essential oils, aromatic extracts, natural molecules and innovative fragrance compounds. A family and independent company exporting its products to more than sixty countries, Payan Bertrand has a modern and efficient industrial equipment. The creativity and technicity of our fragrances are based on the quality and exclusivity of our natural ingredients as well as a thorough knowledge of the markets we work with.
Through an active policy of innovation, combined with an ethical and responsible sourcing approach, Payan Bertrand elaborates the products of tomorrow, in full compliance with the environmental and international guidelines that rule our industry.

In 2022, the year celebrating 100 years of belonging to the Proal family, the company has adopted a new visual identity with a new logo, a harmonious fusion between authenticity, respect for nature, the demand for quality and exclusivity, illustrating the strong emotional bond of a unique company, proud of its roots and resolutely attuned towards the future!

For the second consecutive year, Payan Bertrand is certified by “ IG absolue Pays de Grasse”.

This Certification aims at protecting and recognizing the unique quality of Grasse absolutes. The Geographical Indication thus enhances the emblematic know-how of the region: that of the local farmers who produce perfume plants and the expertise of the manufacturers who are committed to processing them in the Grasse area.

Our first experience as an exhibitor at the CFIA is already over…

The Payan Bertrand team was delighted to be able to meet, exchange and share with you. New links have been created, beautiful encounters have taken place, such as with Aymeric Pataud, a passionate creative chef, “recipe twister”, author of culinary books and pioneer of cooking with essential oils. Beautiful projects are in prospect!

Payan Bertrand is very happy to see its customers at the Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna 2023 Edition, the most important beauty trade show in the world dedicated to all sectors of the beauty industry, taking place in Italy. 

Our 100% feminine team, Morgane Bay and Steffie LE BENEZIC, Area Sales Manager at Payan Bertrand are pleased to meet you until March 17th 2023.

Global score : 88/100
 
Salary gaps : 33/40
Gaps in promotion rates : 35/35
Salary increase upon return from maternity leave: 15/15
Number of employees of the underrepresented gender among the ten employees who received the best remunerations: 5/10

It is with pride that we can offer our Absolue Mimosa Pays certified Indication Geographique Pays de Grasse.  Payan Bertrand, a committed player alongside all the manufacturers of Grasse, participated in the elaboration of the specifications of this validated in November 2020, in order to preserve, thanks to this label, the area of production of flowers and their transformation.

In 2022, Payan Bertrand is celebrating the centenary of the Proal family’s management of the business, and also adopting a new identity with a new logo. Eric and Vincent Proal take this opportunity to describe the company’s current status and ambitions.

Read more in the magazine Expression Cosmétique N°78 (P.150-153)

You can also find our new corporate film in the latest news.

Very involved for many years in the Ylang Ylang sector in the Comoros, in particular through the NGO ID Comores, Payan Bertrand is proud to have participated, in the presence of our laboratory director, Esmeralda Cicchetti, in the jury for the thesis of the new doctor Chakira regarding the study of abiotic and technological factors on the aromatic compounds of the essence.

The link between Perfume and Health is a subject on which Payan Bertrand’s Perfumery and Innovation teams has been working on for a very long time, in collaboration with the University of Nice. The post-Covid olfactive training is a theme on which we particularly focused and worked by supplying olfactive sets given to every patient of that study recently published, that you can discover today : https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/12/3275/htm  

With a long multidisciplinary experience as Production Manager, Bernard Soulier is specialised in the processing of natural raw materials, from sourcing to the purchase of raw materials, combined with a requirement for quality, connected to his mission of Laboratory Manager (quality control and regulatory affairs) within various companies (Argeville, Quimdis, Diffusions Aromatiques).

He joined PAYAN BERTRAND on 1st April 2022 as Operations Director, in charge of all the company’s natural productions.

We are pleased to welcome Bernard to our team !

Esméralda Cicchetti, an accomplished specialist in natural product analysis, regulatory analysis and olfaction has been appointed Director of Payan Bertrand’s Laboratories.

She is now in charge of the administrative, scientific and technical management of Quality Control and Analytical Research (Method Development and Research and Innovation).

She joined Payan Bertrand on September 2021 as Research & Innovation Manager.