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 "license": "https://www.radlerparfums.com/terms",
 "id": "farina",
 "type": "House",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "BNF-FARINA",
  "FARINA-HISTORY",
  "NDB-FARINA",
  "WD-1"
 ],
 "name": {
  "value": "Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "BNF-FARINA",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-FARINA.txt:7",
  "quote": "Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz forme internationale",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the BnF authority record’s heading"
 },
 "record_names": [
  "Farina",
  "Johann Maria Farina"
 ],
 "kind": "fragrance house",
 "founded": {
  "value": "1709",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1709,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "BNF-FARINA",
  "sources": [
   "FARINA-HISTORY"
  ],
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-FARINA.txt:8",
  "quote": "Naissance : 1709",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "founders": [
  {
   "name": "Johann Baptist Farina (1683–1732), joined about 1714 by his brother Johann Maria Farina (1685–1766)",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "NDB-FARINA",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/NDB-FARINA.txt:7",
   "quote": "Johann Baptist (1683–1732), betrieb seit 1709 in Köln ein Kommissions- und Speditionsgeschäft mit einem kleinen Ladenhandel.",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": "the Neue Deutsche Biographie; the company’s own history credits Johann Maria Farina"
  }
 ],
 "places": [
  {
   "place": "Cologne",
   "role": "founded in",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "FARINA-HISTORY",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/FARINA-HISTORY.txt:8",
   "quote": "continue to produce it in Cologne according to a closely guarded recipe",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "notable": [
  {
   "what": "Eau de Cologne, made in Cologne",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "BNF-FARINA",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-FARINA.txt:9",
   "quote": "Parfumerie, producteur de l'Eau de Cologne.",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "what": "bought from growers in Reggio Calabria, by the company’s own account",
   "material": "bergamot-essential-oil",
   "origin": "calabria-it",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "FARINA-HISTORY",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/FARINA-HISTORY.txt:9",
   "quote": "To this day, Bergamot is sourced directly from farmers in Reggio Calabria.",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "the page says bergamot; the record links the bergamot material"
  }
 ],
 "lineage": [
  {
   "relation": "renamed",
   "name": "Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichsplatz, the name the business later took",
   "year": 1714,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "NDB-FARINA",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/NDB-FARINA.txt:8",
   "quote": "das später den Namen „Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichsplatz“ führte",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "status": {
  "value": "still trading in Cologne and still in the family, by its own account",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "FARINA-HISTORY",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/FARINA-HISTORY.txt:10",
  "quote": "To this day, the company remains in family hands.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "Who founded it: the company credits Johann Maria Farina in 1709; the Neue Deutsche Biographie says his brother Johann Baptist ran the Cologne business from 1709 and Johann Maria joined about 1714.",
   "sources": [
    "FARINA-HISTORY",
    "NDB-FARINA"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "links": {},
 "copy": {
  "lede": "A Cologne house of eau de Cologne dated to 1709, where the brothers Johann Baptist and Johann Maria Farina traded; it still makes its eau de Cologne in the city and is still in the family.",
  "body": [
   "By its own account it buys its bergamot from growers in Reggio Calabria. Its founding is told two ways: the company names Johann Maria Farina, the Neue Deutsche Biographie his elder brother."
  ]
 },
 "source_licence": {
  "derived_from": "sources[] (scripts/validate-entities.mjs recomputes this)",
  "classes": [
   "CC BY-NC-ND",
   "CC0",
   "no licence stated",
   "open government licence"
  ],
  "commercial_use": "facts and short quotes only",
  "single_source": null,
  "licence": null
 },
 "wikidata_qid": {
  "value": "Q650195",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/wikidata/Q650195.json:2",
  "quote": "\"qid\": \"Q650195\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz)"
 }
}