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Tokalon

Tokalon started out as the To-Kalon Manufacturing Company, a business established by E. Virgil Neal in Syracuse, New York State in 1907.

Tokalon (post 1930)

By 1930, E. Virgil Neal had settled in Nice, France and had stopped selling Tokalon in the American market.

F. W. Hampshire

F. W. Hampshire produced a wide variety of products including the Snowfire range of toiletries and cosmetics.

Goya started out as a perfume brand founded by Douglas Collins in Brighton, England in 1937. Realising that Brighton was not particularly fashionable he also registered a London postal address at 4 Whitehorse Street, Piccadilly.

Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour was founded in 1933 with a salon opened at 23 Woodstock Street, off Bond Street, in Mayfair, London. It quickly expanded across Britain as well as parts of the British Empire, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Cheramy

In 1921, Houbigant created Cheramy, a new subsidiary that would be used to market a range of perfumes that were cheaper than those sold under the Houbigant brand.

Houbigant

According to tradition, Houbigant was founded in 1775 by Jean-François Houbigant at 19 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré under the sign ‘A la corbielle de fleurs’.