Restraint over revenue.
We would rather lose a sale than over-treat a face. If you don't need something, we will tell you — and we mean it every time.
Our Story
A place where a physician has time. Where the answer is sometimes "not yet," or "not at all." Where looking like yourself is the highest standard of success — not looking like you've had something done.
From the founder
I spent ten years in academic dermatology before I opened these doors. Long enough to love the medicine, and long enough to grow uneasy with what aesthetic practice was becoming — quicker, louder, more transactional. Faces treated like before-and-after slides.
I wanted to practise differently. To sit with someone for forty-five minutes before touching anything. To be the person who occasionally says, honestly, that they don't need me yet. I named the clinic after my grandmother — unhurried, exacting, quietly elegant. Everything here is built in her image.
We have stayed small on purpose. I still perform every biostimulatory treatment myself. I still believe restraint is the most advanced technique we offer. That is the whole philosophy, and it has never changed.
The space
Soft light, warm stone, and not a fluorescent tube in sight. We designed every room to lower your shoulders the moment you walk in.
Our home on Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris — by appointment only.
What we hold to
We would rather lose a sale than over-treat a face. If you don't need something, we will tell you — and we mean it every time.
No treatment here is delegated. The person who assesses you is the person who treats you, with the training to do both.
Forty-five unhurried minutes before anything is decided. The consultation is where the real work happens.
Real results, shown unretouched. Real risks, explained plainly. No seals, no superlatives, no urgency.
Success is when no one can tell — only that you look well. Movement preserved, character intact.
The long way here
Dr. Aubert leaves academic dermatology and opens Solène with two rooms, one nurse, and a single conviction: less, done well.
We start publishing plainly written guidance — how to tell good work from over-treatment — long before it was fashionable to.
A larger home, designed to feel residential. Henri joins to lead laser and skin; the practice becomes a true team.
Our signature two-session protocol matures into the treatment we are best known for — and Dr. Aubert begins training other physicians in it.
Still physician-led. Still small by design. Still recommending less than we could — because that was always the point.
Come and see
Book a complimentary consultation, or simply visit. We'll put the kettle on and talk — no obligation, no treatment proposed before it's understood.