Fashion house · France · Since 1933

Lacoste

FranceSay it luh-KAWST · the founder's family name

Fresh, sporty perfumes from the French tennis-shirt brand with the green crocodile, best known for Lacoste Essential and Touch of Pink.

Tennis champion René Lacoste, 'the Crocodile', founded La Chemise Lacoste with knitwear maker André Gillier in 1933. Its first perfumes were made by Jean Patou from the 1960s; since 2012 a Swiss family group owns the brand, and Interparfums makes the perfumes.

Owned by

Maus Frères, a Swiss family group, since 2012. Interparfums makes the perfumes under a licence signed in 2022. Checked October 2026.

Where this comes from

The sentence · interparfums.fr · en.wikipedia.orgThe story · en.wikipedia.org · interparfums.frOwned by · en.wikipedia.org · interparfums.frThe perfumes that made it · perfumeintelligence.co.uk · en.wikipedia.org

2 of its perfumes are here.

All 2 here

2 perfumes · the best known first

L.12.12 Blanc2011 · Eau de Toilette · For menGrapefruit, cardamom and rosemary over ylang-ylang and tuberose, drying down to cedar, suede and leather.

No sales evidence yet for the 1 below, so A to Z

Touch of Pink2004 · Eau de Toilette · For womenOrange, blood orange and peach with cardamom over jasmine and violet leaf, settling into vanilla, musk and sandalwood.

Its perfumers here: Domitille Bertier. 1 of its 2 don’t name one yet.