J.F. Schwarzlose Berlin
Berlin's oldest fragrance heritage, reawakened.
J.F. Schwarzlose Berlin traces its origins to 1856, when Joachim Friedrich Schwarzlose — originally a piano maker — founded the company that would become Berlin's most historically significant fragrance house. Under his descendants Kurt and Max Schwarzlose, the business developed a distinguished perfumery operation, producing celebrated compositions including 1A-33, Treffpunkt 8 Uhr, and Rosa Centifolia for a clientele that spanned German society and the European aristocracy. The house did not survive the Second World War intact; its factory and shops were destroyed in 1944, and the company was ultimately liquidated in 1976. The name and legacy were resurrected in 2012 under a new company bearing the original designation, with perfumer Véronique Nyberg collaborating on a contemporary collection that re-engages the archive while addressing a modern niche audience. The reborn Schwarzlose Berlin is a considered heritage project — one that neither pretends continuity was unbroken nor abandons the weight of nearly a century and a half of German perfumery history. It is distributed through specialist niche boutiques internationally, occupying a distinctive position as the custodian of Berlin's forgotten olfactive tradition.
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.
