Established in 1643 by Claude Trudon, Cire Trudon is one of the most famous wax producing factory in France. As the provider of Louis XIV's French royal court, as well as the most glorious cathedrals and churches throughout France history, and know-how, is unsurpassed. In 1643 Claude Trudon became the owner of a boutique on the rue Sant-Honoré where he developed his activity as a grocer and candler. His candles were purchased to light parishes and homes. Hus, in the early days of Luis the 14th reigns, Claude Trudon created a manufacturing company that would make his family’s fortune. The manufacturer used the beeswax to make its candles. Its Motto “Deo regique laborant” meant “They work for God and the King” (“they” being the bees). The wax was carefully harvested from the hive before being filtered, washed and exposed to the sunlight in order to obtain the purest white possible.  

The court of Louis the 15th and the kingdom’s largest parishes were seduced by the Manufacture’s perfectly white candles. Besides their immature color, they burned for a long time and did not splutter. Already true luxury…  

In 1737 his descendant Jérôme Trudon brought the Manufacture Royale des Cires (Royal Wax Manufacturer) in Antony from Seigneur Péan de Saint_Gilles. With his family’s extensive candling skills, Jérôme Trudon brilliantly developed the Manufacture.

In 1762 in the Encyclopédie Raisonnée des Sciences, Arts et des Métiers (the Encyclopedia of Reason for the Science, Ar, and Trade), the engineer Duhamel du Monceau published an article on the Art of Candling. The Manufacture supplied Versailles up to the last days of the Ancient Regime and survived through the French Revolution. 

When Napoleon the 1st was crowned in 1811, the Manufacture supplied the imperial court. The Emperor gave his son only one present the day he was born: a Trudon pillar candle adorned with three gold coins showing Napoleon’s profile, the Imperial Pillar Candle.

No political or industrial revolution ever blighted the Manufacture’s existence, it even survived the arrival of the “miracle of the electricity”. In 1889 the Manufacture’s know-how was honored with a gold medal at France’s World’s Fair.

In 2007 the company took the name “Cire Trudon” and became a specialist in manufacturing perfumed candles. Today it enlists well-known “noses” to create perfumes for the stories it wishes to tell. Each candle is still dripped and made by hand, perpetuating a luxury manufacturing which helps perpetuates the skills of its founder, Claude Trudon.

The first Trudon store opened at the beginning of the 20 century in the Saint Germain-des-Prés neighborhood near Saint Suplice church. Surrounded by a number of religious item stores, it continues to propose a broad range of scented decorative candles.

In 2014 Trudon opened a store at 11 rue Sait Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie in the Marais, a historical and typically Parisian area. Today Trudon candles shine throughout the world.