Roger & Gallet
The story of Roger & Gallet begins in Italy, in the footsteps of a young Italian named Giovanni Paolo Feminis, who in 1693 invented a miraculous water, Acqua Mirabilis, a remedy based on 18 officinal plants cultivated in a convent in Florence, the Garden of the Simpletons.
This medicinal water by the Roger & Gallet brand was reputed to cure many ailments, either by rubbing or by ablution. The regenerating neroli, the refreshing lavender, the antiflammatory citronella, the antiseptic thyme… the miracle recipe crossed the centuries and the borders until Cologne where a certain Jean Marie Joseph Farina inherited it and patented it: the Eau de Cologne was born.
In 1806 Jean Marie Farina moved to Paris and founded his own perfume house. He used the advances in distillation of the time to modernise the formula of Acqua Mirabilis and make Eau de Cologne a perfume.
Prized for its fresh bergamot and orange blossom scents, Jean Marie Farina’s Eau de Cologne seduced the royal courts, for which he became the official supplier. On the skin, this water gave a new sensation of freshness. Its muses are Napoleon I, the empress Eugenie, as many personalities which ensures him an international fame.
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In 1862, two brothers-in-law, Armand Roger and Charles Gallet, inherited the precious original Eau de Cologne, which had been copied many times but never equalled. In Paris, the Garnier Opera was being built and Zola wrote Au Bonheur des Dames. In this effervescence, the two partners founded the house of Roger & Gallet and never stopped innovating, inventing and dreaming. In their wake came a profusion of scents, a whirlwind of perfumes and toiletry essentials that delighted elegant women: from soaps to skincare, from make-up to the first lip balms, products where smiling and joie de vivre are, for Roger & Gallet, a second nature.
