Jergens / Eastman Royal Perfumes
Moisturizing America since 1882.
Jergens is one of America's oldest personal care brands, founded in Cincinnati in 1882 by Andrew Jergens Sr. and Charles Geifus as a soap manufacturer before expanding into the lotions and fragrances that would define its mass-market legacy. The Eastman Royal Perfumes arm represented an early foray into affordable home and personal fragrance, producing scented products that brought a touch of luxury to everyday American households in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With classic releases such as Cherry Almond and various floral toilet waters, the combined Jergens and Eastman Royal catalogue captured an era when American drugstores served as a primary conduit for accessible fragrance. Today Jergens is owned by Kao Corporation of Japan and remains best known for its moisturising lotion, while the Eastman Royal Perfumes legacy survives mainly as a collector's interest — a fragrant footnote to a brand better remembered for skincare than scent.
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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.
