Grossmith
London perfumery since 1835, by royal warrant.
Grossmith is one of the oldest English perfume houses, founded in London in 1835 by John Grossmith and developed across three generations of the family into a major Victorian and Edwardian perfumery — at its peak the formula books recorded over three hundred products, and the firm held royal warrants from Queen Victoria, Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, and Queen Mary, alongside the courts of Greece and Spain. The house went quiet in the second half of the twentieth century and trading ceased entirely in 1980. In 2009 Simon and Amanda Brooke, descendants of the founder, relaunched it after recovering the original formulae, with Baccarat granted special license to reuse the 1919 bottle moulds. Roja Dove worked with the family to reconstruct the period perfumes for the modern relaunch. The contemporary catalogue centres on the heritage trio Phul-Nana, Hasu-no-Hana, and Shem-el-Nessim, alongside newer extensions in the same opulent Victorian register.
- Woody100
- Floral92
- Powdery77
- Amber71
- Citrus62
- Yellow Floral61
- Soft Spicy
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
