Century-old expertise, a family affair.

1921 : the Argeville estate, a 90-hectare plantation of roses and of tuberoses, is established in the town of Mougins.
1936 : the Argeville Company makes a name for itself in flower extract manufacturing and launches its own perfume compositions.
1940 : Argeville starts to expand rapidly.
1981 : Jean-Jacques Ardizio establishes the group internationally by focussing on biotechnology in producing original raw materials.
1996 : founding of the European Extraction Laboratory (LEE), a subsidiary specialising in processing aromatic plants, in the heart of the Drôme Provençale.

2004 : foundation of the first fragrances division.
2011 : 1, 200 m2 state of the art production site put into operation dedicated exclusively to food fragrances, Argeville Flavour SAS registered office.

Opening of offices in Guangzhou, New York and Bangkok. Fanny and Xavier Ardizio are now continuing their father’s work, ready to take on the challenges of a continually-developing sector, while preserving the high standards and quality requirements associated with the Argeville name.

Manufacture is mostly automated thanks to two Roxane A and Roxane K and C technology.

Argeville SA has always combined respect for tradition and innovation. State of the art equipment guarantees the organoleptic and physicochemical characteristics of our products:

• Eight gas chromatographs coupled with a flame ionization detector (FID),
• Five gas chromatographs coupled with mass spectrometer detectors,
• A thermodesorber,

• A high-performance liquid chroma- tograph,
• A spectrophotometer,
• Two automatic production lines for analysing density and protection factor,

The research team works in close collaboration with the main analysis companies (Agilent, Thermo Finigan, Perkin Elmer).

Quality lies at the heart of our business at Argeville:

• Quality of products,
• Quality of customer relations,
• Quality of life of the personnel within the particular setting of "Domaine d’Argeville".

To guarantee quality, the business applies the highest professional and moral standards.

Stringent procedures have been implement to offer unchanging quality of both raw materials and aromatic compositions:

• Rigorous quality control carried out at various stages of production,
• Products preserved with nitrogen,
• Traceability of all products,

Every Argeville product:

• Complies with international IFRA standards and the legislation in force in the destination country,
• Has a safety card, an analysis card and an analysis certificate,
• Complies with cosmetics directives.

Argeville SA exports 87% of its products to 92 countries.

With a century of expertise behind it, Argeville has remained an independent family business whilst emerging as one of the leaders in its business sector.

Ready for new growth and carried along by the passion of Fanny and Xavier Ardizio, and its dynamic teams, it aims to increase its international reach by strengthening its network and seeking out new scents and fragrances.