Hubert was born on 31 March 1926 at the family castle in Mełgiew in Świdnik, Poland but moved to France at the age of eight.
[3] In 1954, Hubert and his elder brother, Michel, founded Jean d'Albret, a perfume company that produced scents such as Écusson, Rafale, and Lavande.
Jean d’Albret-Orlane was sold the year after his brother entered French politics in 1968, while Hubert remained the company's chairman and chief executive officer running the Jean-Louis Scherrer subsidiary until 1975.
[4] In 1976, Hubert acquired Sisley from its two founders and, with his wife Isabelle in a small two-room office,[5] began developing the company into "the fastest-growing treatment line in Neiman Marcus, where, alongside Bergdorf Goodman, it was sold exclusively in the U.S."[4] By 2014, Sisley reached 638 million euros in beauty sales.
[8] Isabella's uncle was Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, who married Caroline Lee Bouvier (sister to First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis).