Roger & Gallet
House of fragrance and well-being since 1862
Roger & Gallet was founded in Paris in 1862 when Armand Roger and Charles Gallet acquired the rights to Jean-Marie Farina's eau de cologne formula and began producing it under their own name. The house built its identity around hesperidic colognes and round, pleated soap bars that became fixtures of nineteenth-century French bourgeois bathrooms. Now part of L'Oréal's active cosmetics division, Roger & Gallet sits in pharmacy distribution across Europe rather than the perfumery counter, with a catalogue still anchored in cologne-format eaux fraîches — Jean-Marie Farina, Bois d'Orange, Fleur d'Osmanthus — alongside the soap and body line. The price point and apothecary-coded packaging place it firmly in the accessible everyday register.
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.
