OUR FOUNDER
JEAN-LOUIS ROULE: THE ALCHEMIST OF THE INDIAN OCEAN
From science to the shores of Rodrigues Island
The story begins in France, in the pharmaceutical and dermo-cosmetic industry. Jean-Louis Roule learns a craft: discovering, transforming, and revealing the value of active ingredients.
In the early 2000s, Mauritius becomes his home base. He founds the Centre International de Développement Pharmaceutique, which becomes an internationally recognized partner. His gaze soon turns toward the Indian Ocean and its forgotten treasures: an exceptional biodiversity, an immense African pharmacopoeia carrying stories that few have taken the time to discover.
THE ENCOUNTER AT THE ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT
On Rodrigues Island, Jean-Louis Roule discovers simple, generous people with a disarming authenticity, a raw and preserved land, and a fruit that exists nowhere else.
Limon de Rodrigues.
This wild citrus, isolated for over 300 years, holds an olfactory signature found nowhere else in the world.
"The Limon de Rodrigues captivated me from the very first moment, not only for its unique scent, but for the story of the island and its growers, which seemed to be reflected within it."
Voyage à Rodrigues, a brand shaped by a timeless island
One truth became clear: to elevate this rare essence, to turn a territory into an emotion, a fruit into a memory.
For Voyage à Rodrigues, a perfume is not simply a fragrance — it is a tribute to the land that bears it, the hands that cultivate it, the fruit that is its spark.