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Roger & Gallet

A Paris perfume house founded in 1862 by Charles Armand Roger and Charles Martial Gallet, who bought the eau de Cologne business of Jean Marie Farina; owned by L’Oréal from 2008 and sold to the holding Impala in 2020.

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Name
Roger & Gallet
documented

Roger & Gallet forme internationale

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

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
1862 (year)
documented

Naissance : 1862

BNF-ROGERGALLET · Bibliothèque nationale de France · read 2026-10-08
LOREAL-2020-02 · L'Oréal · read 2026-10-08

confidence A

Founders
  • Charles Armand Roger
    documented

    Roger & Gallet is a French perfume house founded by Charles Armand Roger and Charles Martial Gallet in 1862.

    ANMM-RG · Roger & Gallet, Paris — People record, Australian National Maritime Museum collections · read 2026-10-08

    confidence A

  • Charles Martial Gallet
    documented

    Roger & Gallet is a French perfume house founded by Charles Armand Roger and Charles Martial Gallet in 1862.

    ANMM-RG · Roger & Gallet, Paris — People record, Australian National Maritime Museum collections · read 2026-10-08

    confidence A

Places
  • Paris (founded in)
    documented

    Fondée en 1862 à Paris

    LOREAL-2020-02 · L'Oréal · read 2026-10-08

    confidence B

Documented work
  • the Paris eau de Cologne business of Jean Marie Farina, bought in 1862
    documented

    Jean Marie Farina sold the catalog of his company to Roger and Gallet in 1862.

    ANMM-RG · Roger & Gallet, Paris — People record, Australian National Maritime Museum collections · read 2026-10-08

    confidence A

  • Gallet senior was among the founders of the Chambre syndicale de la parfumerie française (1890)
    documented

    MM. Aimé Guerlain et Gallet père engagèrent leurs confrères à se grouper

    PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation · read 2026-10-08

    confidence B

What it became
  • acquired by L’Oréal (2008), with Yves Saint Laurent Beauté
    documented

    Intégrée au sein de L’Oréal depuis 2008 suite à l’acquisition d’Yves Saint Laurent Beauté

    LOREAL-2020-02 · L'Oréal · read 2026-10-08

    confidence B

  • acquired by the French investment holding Impala (2020)
    documented

    L’Oréal and the French investment holding Impala have today finalised the sale of the Roger & Gallet brand

    LOREAL-2020-06 · L'Oréal · read 2026-10-08

    confidence B

Today
sold by L’Oréal to the French holding Impala in June 2020, the latest change of owner a source records (checked 2026-10-08)
documented

L’Oréal and the French investment holding Impala have today finalised the sale of the Roger & Gallet brand

LOREAL-2020-06 · L'Oréal · read 2026-10-08

confidence B

Wikidata
Q3438623
documented

"qid": "Q3438623"

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

the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Roger & Gallet)

confidence A

Sources

  1. ANMM-RG · Roger & Gallet, Paris — People record, Australian National Maritime Museum collections. Australian National Maritime Museum. collections.sea.museum/people/4085/roger--gallet… · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (quoted, not reproduced)
  2. BNF-ROGERGALLET · Bibliothèque nationale de France. Authority record ark:/12148/cb121947429: Roger & Gallet. catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb121947429 · read 2026-10-08 · Licence Ouverte de l'État (Etalab) — BnF descriptive and authority metadata
  3. LOREAL-2020-02 · L'Oréal. “L’Oréal entre en négociations exclusives pour la cession de sa marque Roger & Gallet (communiqué, 4 février 2020)”, the company’s own account. www.loreal-finance.com/fr/communique/loreal-entr… · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (quoted, not reproduced)
  4. LOREAL-2020-06 · L'Oréal. “L’Oréal has finalised the sale of Roger & Gallet to Impala (press release, 29 June 2020)”, the company’s own account. www.loreal-finance.com/eng/news-release/loreal-h… · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (quoted, not reproduced)
  5. PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation. Paris: La Revue des marques de la parfumerie et de la savonnerie, 1925 (the houses’ own notices, with essays on the trade). Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé (Paris) copy, Internet Archive item BIUSante_pharma_res008536. archive.org/details/BIUSante_pharma_res008536 · read 2026-10-08 · Licence ouverte / Open licence Etalab (the rights statement of the BIU Santé digitisation, as the Internet Archive item states it)
  6. 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/roger-gallet.json · version 1 · updated 2026-10-08 · confidence B