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Penhaligon's is a British perfume house founded in the late 1860s by William Henry Penhaligon, a Cornish barber who moved to London and became Court Barber and Perfumer to
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History

William Penhaligon started his working life as a barber within the London and Provincial Turkish Bath Company's London Hammam at 76
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, one of London's most fashionable streets. As was typical of barbers then, Penhaligon created his own products to sell to his clients, many of whom were politicians of the age. Penhaligon's first shop was within the Turkish baths, with a second entrance directly from the street. This is where Penhaligon created his signature perfume, ''Hammam Bouquet''. The second shop opened at 33
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and was attached to the Jermyn Street store at the rear. In the late 1920s, the business moved to Bury Street. The original buildings were destroyed in
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in 1941, but the store on Bury Street remained untouched. The Bury Street premises operated until the mid-1950s, when Penhaligon's was purchased by Geo. F. Trumper, continuing to be manufactured from the basement of Trumper's Curzon Street premises, and slowly fell into obscurity until the brand was revived and a shop opened in Wellington Street,
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in 1977. Penhaligon's today is wholly owned by Spanish fashion and fragrance company Puig International SA. Manufacture of their perfumes has now been moved from the UK to Spain and other countries.


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Stores

Besides the flagship store in Covent Garden, locations in London include the
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, the Royal Exchange, and a second Covent Garden store has opened. A store is also located within Bicester Village. Other shops have also been established outside of the capital in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, Cambridge, Bath, Brighton, Bluewater, Guildford, Leeds, Liverpool, York, Liverpool, Portsmouth and Chester, as well as internationally in Paris, New York City, Hong Kong, Canada, Ireland, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and Macau.


Products

* Hammam Bouquet – 1872; the company's first scent * Blenheim Bouquet – 1902; the company's longest surviving bespoke fragrance, created for the Duke of Marlborough and named for Blenheim Palace * English Fern – 1910 * Douro Eau de Portugal- 1911; name changed to Lords, reverted to Douro * Lily of the Valley – 1976 * Violetta – 1976 – (no longer in production) * Bluebell – 1978 * Victorian Posy – 1979 (No longer in production) * Elisabethan Rose – 1984 (No longer in production) * Racquets – 1989 (No longer in production) * Cornubia – 1991 * Quercus – 1996 * Castile – 1998 * LP No.9 for ladies – 1998 * LP No.9 for men – 1999 * Artemisia – 2002; Was nominated for a FiFi Fragrance Foundation award in the Nouveau Niche category in 2002. * Endymion – 2003 * Malabah – 2003 * Lavandula – 2004 * Ellenisia – 2005 * Opus 1870 – 2005; Created as a celebration of Penhaligon's heritage * Lily & Spice – 2006 (No longer in production) * Elixir – 2008 (No longer in production) * Amaranthine – 2009 (No longer in production) * Sartorial – 2010 * Juniper Sling – 2011 * Peoneve – 2012 * Vaara – 2013; Created for Maharajah Gaj Singh II * Iris Prima – 2013; Created in collaboration with English National Ballet * Bayolea – 2014; A modernised version of a bay rum tonic from Penhaligon's archives Between July 2009 and 2011, Penhaligon's reissued a selection of perfumes from their archives under the banner of the Anthology Collection: * Eau de Cologne – 1927 (No longer in production) * Zizonia – 1930 * Eau de Verveine – 1949 (No longer in production) * Extract of Limes – 1963 (No longer in production) * Gardenia – 1976 * Night Scented Stock – 1976 * Orange Blossom – 1976 * Jubilee Bouquet – 1977 (No longer in production) * Esprit du Roi – 1983 * Eau sans Pareil – 1988 In September 2014, Penhaligon's launched the Trade Routes collection, comprising four fragrances inspired by the explosion of trade in London at the end of the 19th Century: * Empressa – 2014; Inspired by the silks and extravagant goods traded through London * Lothair – 2014; Inspired by and named for the last and biggest Tea Clipper ship * Levantium – 2014; Inspired by the goods stacked high on the wharves, described in a John Masefield poem * As Sawira – 2015; Inspired by Essaouira, the first Sea Port in Morocco In 2015 Penhaligon's launched two new fragrances inspired by the wilds of the British Coastline. * Blasted Heath – 2015; Inspired by the power of the sea. * Blasted Bloom – 2015; Inspired by the wild flora of the British Coastline. * Equinox Bloom – 2016; The first 2016 launch from Penhaligon's, Equinox Bloom is inspired by the loved British tradition of Afternoon Tea


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