Our Story

We built the clinic we wished existed when we were the ones in the chair.

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.

The clinic exterior
Portrait of Dr. Camille Aubert
Dr. Camille Aubert, in the Rue Saint-Honoré consulting room.

From the founder

Why I started Solène.

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.

Camille Aubert Founder & Medical Director

The space

A clinic that feels nothing like one.

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

Five things we will not compromise.

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.

A physician, every time.

No treatment here is delegated. The person who assesses you is the person who treats you, with the training to do both.

Time as the first medicine.

Forty-five unhurried minutes before anything is decided. The consultation is where the real work happens.

Honesty, even when it costs us.

Real results, shown unretouched. Real risks, explained plainly. No seals, no superlatives, no urgency.

You, looking like yourself.

Success is when no one can tell — only that you look well. Movement preserved, character intact.

The long way here

A practice, built slowly.

  1. 2012

    The doors open.

    Dr. Aubert leaves academic dermatology and opens Solène with two rooms, one nurse, and a single conviction: less, done well.

  2. 2015

    The Journal begins.

    We start publishing plainly written guidance — how to tell good work from over-treatment — long before it was fashionable to.

  3. 2018

    The move to Rue Saint-Honoré.

    A larger home, designed to feel residential. Henri joins to lead laser and skin; the practice becomes a true team.

  4. 2021

    Collagen biostimulation, refined.

    Our signature two-session protocol matures into the treatment we are best known for — and Dr. Aubert begins training other physicians in it.

  5. 2026

    Six thousand treatments on.

    Still physician-led. Still small by design. Still recommending less than we could — because that was always the point.

Come and see

The rest is best said in person.

Book a complimentary consultation, or simply visit. We'll put the kettle on and talk — no obligation, no treatment proposed before it's understood.