Parfum-Individual Harry Lehmann
Perfume from Berlin since 1926.
Harry Lehmann is one of Berlin's oldest surviving perfumeries, opened on Friedrichstraße in March 1926 by Harry Lehmann and his father Eduard. The house's central idea — already unusual in the 1920s and now almost unique in Europe — is selling perfume by weight: clients walk in, choose from a wall of decanted compositions, and leave with the requested grams transferred into a plain flacon, or one they have brought themselves. The original shop was destroyed in the 1943 bombings; operations resumed in 1946 and moved in 1958 to Kantstraße 106 in Charlottenburg, where they have stayed. The catalog now lists more than seventy in-house compositions, many of them faithful reissues of pre-war formulas. After Lutz Lehmann's death in 2022, the business passed to a small group of younger Berlin owners working with a Paris-trained perfumer to continue the line.
