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On January 28, 1916, the California Perfume Company was incorporated in the state of New York. McConnell, Henderson, and William Scheele were listed as company officials. [ 3 ] The name, California Perfume Company, was a suggestion made by a friend of McConnell's who had written to him describing California because of the great abundance of ...
Maurice Roucel. Maurice Roucel is a French perfumer who has worked at the companies IFF, Quest, Dragoco and presently Symrise.Roucel began his career in perfumery on February 19, 1973, while working as the head chromatography chemist at Chanel for 6 years.
He was the founder of the Coty perfume company, today a multinational. He is considered the founding father of the modern perfume industry. In 1904, his first success, fragrance La Rose Jacqueminot launched his career. He soon started exporting perfumes from France, and by 1910 he had subsidiaries in Moscow, London and New York.
This is a list of some of the most widely known commercially available perfumes from the 14th century onwards, sortable by year, name, company, perfumer, and the authority for its notability. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Richard Alexander Hudnut (June 2, 1855 – October 30, 1928) [1] was an American businessman recognized as the first American to achieve international success in cosmetics manufacturing. [2]
Jean Despres (1903 – August 19, 1878) was a perfume industry businessman, known for his work with Coty. The French-born Jean Despres came to New York in 1921 working for Coty. Starting as a shipping clerk, he went on to become a travelling salesman, covering thousands of miles on the Santa Fe Railroad across America to sell Coty perfumes and ...
The Wertheimer family still runs the Chanel perfume business. Jacques Polge, the modern Chanel perfumer, released a collection called Les Exclusifs in February 2007. This included Chanel No. 22. The 200-milliliter spray bottle of the scent was sold exclusively in Chanel boutiques and at Bergdorf Goodman with a price of US$175. [6]
Roure was founded in Grasse, France during 1820. In 1937 Roure created the first designer perfume: Shocking for Schiaparelli. [14] [15] Givaudan's original United States fragrance headquarters, in Teaneck, New Jersey, was built in 1972 from a design by Der Scutt, architect of the Trump Tower. [16] The company later moved to East Hanover, New ...