
Our review
A small, rich anti-ageing hand cream with shea butter, plant waxes, hyaluronic acid, a stable vitamin C ester, vitamin E, pea and seaweed extracts and carcinine. Pleasant and well formulated for dry hands, but strongly fragranced with synthetic musks, and we found no public user reviews of this current version.

Packaging and what the product is
The payot.com photo shows a slim, deep-purple tube standing on a glossy purple flip cap, printed with “PAYOT Paris”, “Suprême Absolu” and “Crème jeunesse mains / Youth hand cream”. The tube holds 30 ml and is listed at €19 on payot.com. The brand recommends applying it to the hands at any time of day.
Ingredient analysis
After water come ethylhexyl palmitate (a light emollient ester), butylene glycol and shea butter, followed by cetyl alcohol and glyceryl stearate as emulsifiers and maltodextrin. Jojoba esters, sunflower seed wax and acacia flower wax add a cushiony, protective film. This base explains the “melting, non-sticky, velvet finish” the brand describes.
The actives sit mid-list: pea extract, magnolia bark extract, ascorbyl tetraisopalmitate (an oil-soluble, more stable vitamin C derivative), tocopheryl acetate, the seaweeds Alaria esculenta and wakame (Undaria), orchid extract, sodium hyaluronate and a crosslinked hyaluronate, biosaccharide gum-1 and decarboxy carnosine HCl (carcinine, an antioxidant peptide-like molecule). Chlorphenesin, o-cymen-5-ol, sodium levulinate and sodium anisate preserve the formula. Fragrance includes parfum, the synthetic musks tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes and hexamethylindanopyran, and linalyl acetate.
What to watch out for
The cream is fragranced, so people with fragrance allergy or hand eczema should be cautious and patch test. Claims about fading brown spots (the brand reports −29% spot visibility after 56 days, 4 applications a day, on 22 volunteers) come from a small in-house test; for any spot-reducing effect, daily hand sunscreen matters at least as much. Changes in pigmentation that grow or look unusual should be checked by a doctor.
What users say
We did not find public user reviews of this Suprême Absolu Crème Mains Jeunesse: payot.com shows no review widget, and the parfumdreams page we checked had no reviews (checked 1 Nov 2026). Older Suprême hand creams with a different formula have reviews elsewhere, but they cannot be applied to this version. The only performance data available are the brand’s own consumer test figures (82% of 22 volunteers felt their hands looked younger and more even).
Who it may suit
Adults with dry or mature-looking hands who enjoy a richly textured, perfumed hand cream and do not mind a premium price per millilitre. People with sensitive or eczema-prone hands, or who prefer unscented products, should choose a fragrance-free alternative.
Editorial review by INCIMondo based on the ingredient list and publicly available opinions. Not medical advice. · 2026-11-01
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The ingredient list comes from the manufacturer’s website (date below). Formulas change and can differ between markets – the label of the product you buy is decisive.
Ingredients
- AQUA · Solvent
- ETHYLHEXYL PALMITATE · Skin conditioning – emollient, Perfuming
- BUTYLENE GLYCOL · Humectant, Fragrance, Skin conditioning
- BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII BUTTER · Skin conditioning, Viscosity controlling
- CETYL ALCOHOL · Skin conditioning – emollient, Surfactant – emulsifying, Emulsion stabilising
- GLYCERYL STEARATE · Skin conditioning – emollient, Surfactant – emulsifying
- MALTODEXTRIN · Absorbent, Binding, Emulsion stabilising
- JOJOBA ESTERS · Skin conditioning – emollient, Moisturising, Skin conditioning
- METHYLPROPANEDIOL · Solvent
- HELIANTHUS ANNUUS SEED CERA (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS (SUNFLOWER) SEED WAX, CAPRYLIC/CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDE, ACACIA DECURRENS FLOWER CERA (ACACIA DECURRENS FLOWER WAX), PISUM SATIVUM (PEA) EXTRACT, MAGNOLIA OFFICINALIS BARK EXTRACT, SUCROSE DILAURATE, ASCORBYL TETRAISOPALMITATE, TOCOPHERYL ACETATE, ALARIA ESCULENTA EXTRACT, ORCHID EXTRACT, UNDARIA PINNATIFIDA EXTRACT, SODIUM HYALURONATE, SODIUM HYALURONATE CROSSPOLYMER, HYDROXYETHYL ACRYLATE/SODIUM ACRYLOYLDIMETHYL TAURATE COPOLYMER) · not recognised
- PEG-75 STEARATE · Surfactant – cleansing
- PARFUM · Fragrance, Perfuming
- GLYCERIN · Denaturant, Hair conditioning, Humectant
- CHLORPHENESIN · Antimicrobial, PreservativeEU restrictions
- CETETH-20 · Cleansing, Surfactant – emulsifying, Surfactant – cleansing
- STEARETH-20 · Cleansing, Surfactant – emulsifying, Surfactant – cleansing
- SODIUM COCOYL GLUTAMATE · Cleansing, Surfactant – cleansing
- ETHYLHEXYL STEARATE · Skin conditioning – emollient
- O-CYMEN-5-OL · Antimicrobial, Deodorant, PreservativeEU restrictions
- POLYGLYCERIN-3 · Humectant
- POLYSORBATE 60 · Surfactant – emulsifying, Surfactant – cleansing
- SORBITAN ISOSTEARATE · Surfactant – emulsifying
- BIOSACCHARIDE GUM-1 · Skin conditioning
- TETRAMETHYL ACETYLOCTAHYDRONAPHTHALENES · Fragrance, Perfuming, Skin conditioning – miscellaneousEU restrictions
- HEXAMETHYLINDANOPYRAN · Fragrance, PerfumingEU restrictions
- POLYGLYCERYL-4 DIISOSTEARATE/POLYHYDROXYSTEARATE/SEBACATE · Surfactant – emulsifying, Emulsion stabilising, Surfactant – cleansing
- SODIUM LEVULINATE · Skin conditioning – miscellaneous
- CITRIC ACID · Buffering, Chelating, FragranceEU restrictions
- GLYCERYL CAPRYLATE · Deodorant, Skin conditioning – emollient, Surfactant – emulsifying
- SODIUM ISOSTEARATE · Cleansing, Surfactant – emulsifying, Surfactant – cleansing
- DECARBOXY CARNOSINE HCL · Antistatic, Hair conditioning, Skin conditioning
- SODIUM ANISATE · Antimicrobial, Fragrance, Flavouring
- LINALYL ACETATE · FragranceEU restrictions
An INCI list does not reveal exact concentrations.
Ingredient list as published
AQUA (WATER), ETHYLHEXYL PALMITATE, BUTYLENE GLYCOL, BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII (SHEA) BUTTER, CETYL ALCOHOL, GLYCERYL STEARATE, MALTODEXTRIN, JOJOBA ESTERS, METHYLPROPANEDIOL, HELIANTHUS ANNUUS SEED CERA (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS (SUNFLOWER) SEED WAX, CAPRYLIC/CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDE, ACACIA DECURRENS FLOWER CERA (ACACIA DECURRENS FLOWER WAX), PISUM SATIVUM (PEA) EXTRACT, MAGNOLIA OFFICINALIS BARK EXTRACT, SUCROSE DILAURATE, ASCORBYL TETRAISOPALMITATE, TOCOPHERYL ACETATE, ALARIA ESCULENTA EXTRACT, ORCHID EXTRACT, UNDARIA PINNATIFIDA EXTRACT, SODIUM HYALURONATE, SODIUM HYALURONATE CROSSPOLYMER, HYDROXYETHYL ACRYLATE/SODIUM ACRYLOYLDIMETHYL TAURATE COPOLYMER), PEG-75 STEARATE, PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), GLYCERIN, CHLORPHENESIN, CETETH-20, STEARETH-20, SODIUM COCOYL GLUTAMATE, ETHYLHEXYL STEARATE, O-CYMEN-5-OL, POLYGLYCERIN-3, POLYSORBATE 60, SORBITAN ISOSTEARATE, BIOSACCHARIDE GUM-1, TETRAMETHYL ACETYLOCTAHYDRONAPHTHALENES, HEXAMETHYLINDANOPYRAN, POLYGLYCERYL-4 DIISOSTEARATE/POLYHYDROXYSTEARATE/SEBACATE, SODIUM LEVULINATE, CITRIC ACID, GLYCERYL CAPRYLATE, SODIUM ISOSTEARATE, DECARBOXY CARNOSINE HCL, SODIUM ANISATE, LINALYL ACETATE*

