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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 .
Perfume ( UK: / ˈpɜːfjuːm /, US: / pərˈfjuːm /; French: parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent. [ 1]
The perfume references are part of a larger text called Brihat-Samhita written by Varāhamihira, an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer living in the city of Ujjain. He was one of the ‘nine jewels’ in the court of Vikramaditya. The perfume portion mainly deals with the manufacture of perfumes to benefit ‘royal personages’.
Old Spice. Old Spice is an American brand of male grooming products encompassing aftershaves, deodorants and antiperspirants, shampoos, body washes, shaving cream, and soaps. It is manufactured by Procter & Gamble . Old Spice was launched as Early American Old Spice by William Lightfoot Schultz's soap and toiletries company, Shulton Inc., in 1937.
Germany. AEG. BenQ Mobile. Bankruptcy in 2006, defunct in 2007. Grundig Mobile. Hagenuk Telecom GmbH. insolvency in 1997, mobile phone development and manufacturing business acquired by Telital in 1998 [ 9] Siemens Mobile. Acquired by BenQ Corporation in 2005 to form BenQ Mobile.
International Flavors & Fragrances. International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. ( IFF) is an American corporation that creates products across taste, texture, scent, nutrition, enzymes, cultures, soy proteins, and probiotics categories, which it markets globally. It is headquartered in New York City and has creative, sales, and manufacturing ...
Some 8,000 perfumes were profiled in the 2015 printed edition of Fragrances of the World, accompanied by brand name, date, fragrance family and gender.The online database, updated weekly, archives profiles of over 17,000 perfumes, listing brand name, corporate group, creative director, gender, perfumer, date, country of origin, bottle designer, fragrance family, an image, an olfactory pyramid ...
Puig Brands, S.A. (commonly Puig; Catalan pronunciation: [ˈputʃ]) is a Spanish fashion and fragrance company founded in 1914 by Antonio Puig Castelló in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and still managed by the Puig family. Puig markets its products in 150 countries and is directly present in 26 of them, employing 4,472 people worldwide. [ 4]