Lancaster
Lancaster was established in Monaco in 1946 by Georges Wurz, a former Royal Air Force Lancaster pilot, and Eugène Frezzati, a chemist specialising in cosmetics. The two had met during the war years on the Riviera and named their venture for the Avro Lancaster bomber Wurz had flown. The early company built its reputation on suncare and skincare developed for the Mediterranean climate, with fragrance arriving as a complement to the cosmetics line. Lancaster joined the Coty group in the mid-1990s and remains a Coty prestige brand, headquartered in Monaco with research carried out at its Monte Carlo laboratories. The fragrance catalogue is modest and discreet, leaning toward classic feminine eaux and golden-coded suncare crossover scents. The house is more famous for tanning and skincare than perfume, but the bottles still carry the Monégasque identity.
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.
