Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz

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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.

The record

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Name

Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz

documented

Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz forme internationale

BNF-FARINA · Bibliothèque nationale de France · read 2026-10-08

the BnF authority record’s heading

confidence A

Kind

fragrance house

house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the grouping on /houses: what the firm was chiefly known for in the sources read

confidence B

Founded

1709 (year)

documented

Naissance : 1709

BNF-FARINA · Bibliothèque nationale de France · read 2026-10-08
FARINA-HISTORY · Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz · read 2026-10-08

confidence A

Founders

• Johann Baptist Farina (1683–1732), joined about 1714 by his brother Johann Maria Farina (1685–1766)
  documented

  Johann Baptist (1683–1732), betrieb seit 1709 in Köln ein Kommissions- und Speditionsgeschäft mit einem kleinen Ladenhandel.

  NDB-FARINA · Taubert, Dietrich, "Farina" in · read 2026-10-08

  the Neue Deutsche Biographie; the company’s own history credits Johann Maria Farina

  confidence A

Places

• Cologne (founded in)
  documented

  continue to produce it in Cologne according to a closely guarded recipe

  FARINA-HISTORY · Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

Documented work

• Eau de Cologne, made in Cologne
  documented

  Parfumerie, producteur de l'Eau de Cologne.

  BNF-FARINA · Bibliothèque nationale de France · read 2026-10-08

  confidence A

• bergamot essential oil (olio essenziale di bergamotto) · bought from growers in Reggio Calabria, by the company’s own account
  documented

  To this day, Bergamot is sourced directly from farmers in Reggio Calabria.

  FARINA-HISTORY · Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz · read 2026-10-08

  the page says bergamot; the record links the bergamot material

  confidence B

What it became

• renamed Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichsplatz, the name the business later took (1714)
  documented

  das später den Namen „Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichsplatz“ führte

  NDB-FARINA · Taubert, Dietrich, "Farina" in · read 2026-10-08

  confidence A

Today

still trading in Cologne and still in the family, by its own account (checked 2026-10-08)

documented

To this day, the company remains in family hands.

FARINA-HISTORY · Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz · read 2026-10-08

confidence B

Wikidata

Q650195

documented

"qid": "Q650195"

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz)

confidence A

Where the sources disagree

• 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. (FARINA-HISTORY, NDB-FARINA)

Sources

1. BNF-FARINA · Bibliothèque nationale de France. Authority record ark:/12148/cb160565910: Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz. catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb160565910 · read 2026-10-08 · Licence Ouverte de l'État (Etalab) — BnF descriptive and authority metadata
2. FARINA-HISTORY · Johann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz. “Farina 1709 – The History of the Original Eau de Cologne”, the company’s own account. farina1709.com/en/pages/history-1 · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (quoted, not reproduced)
3. NDB-FARINA · Taubert, Dietrich, "Farina" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 5 (1961), S. 25 [Online-Version]. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften / Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Deutsche Biographie). www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz15581.html · read 2026-10-08 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (NDB articles) (quoted, not reproduced)
4. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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this record as data: /data/house/farina.json · version 1 · updated 2026-10-08 · confidence B