Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Tokalon Perfumes

Tokalon of New York City & Paris France. Originally a British company To-Kalon, possibly established before 1900 as a chemical-pharmaceutical company. They also produced laundry soaps in addition to cosmetics, toiletries and beautiful , luxurious perfume presentations.







Dr. Anthony T. Frascati (b. July 7, 1892 in Italy) composed the perfumes for Tokalon in 1922-1925..  Frascati had also compounded perfumes for other companies such as Perfumery St Denis (1922-1925, 1929-1932), Ungerer & Co (1929-1932), and Givaudan-Delawanna (1925-1926) before joining Max Factor in 1933. Frascati worked in the Max Factor labs until 1936, when he was appointed head of the perfume laboratory for Firmenich in New York City until 1949. He even whipped up private perfumes for screen stars, but did not manufacture them.






They opened an important branch in Syracuse, NY and Francis B. Mastin became proprietor in 1910.

Another branch was situated at:
Tokalon, Inc.
27 West 20th Street
New York, New York

The Company later diversified into property as Societe Immobiliere, Franco-Anglo-Americaine.

The perfumes of Tokalon:

  • 1912 Flor Azur
  • 1912 Mysteria
  • 1914 Rouge Oriental
  • 1914 Petalia
  • 1922 Buda
  • 1922 Adurea
  • 1922 Ponette
  • 1922 Songe D'Orient
  • 1922 Fascination
  • 1922 Serie Classique
  • 1923 D'Ara
  • 1926 Parfum de Mon Chateau
  • 1926 Chateau d'Azvr
  • 1926 Chateau
  • 1927 Demon Chateau



No comments:

Post a Comment

All comments will be subject to approval by a moderator. Comments may fail to be approved if the moderator deems that they:
--contain unsolicited advertisements ("spam")
--are unrelated to the subject matter of the post or of subsequent approved comments
--contain personal attacks or abusive/gratuitously offensive language

Welcome!

This is not your average perfume blog. In each post, I present perfumes or companies as encyclopedic entries with as much facts and photos as I can add for easy reading and researching without all the extraneous fluff or puffery.

Please understand that this website is not affiliated with any of the perfume companies written about here, it is only a source of reference. I consider it a repository of vital information for collectors and those who have enjoyed the classic fragrances of days gone by. Updates to posts are conducted whenever I find new information to add or to correct any errors.

One of the goals of this website is to show the present owners of the various perfumes and cologne brands that are featured here how much we miss the discontinued classics and hopefully, if they see that there is enough interest and demand, they will bring back these fragrances!

Please leave a comment below (for example: of why you liked the fragrance, describe the scent, time period or age you wore it, who gave it to you or what occasion, any specific memories, what it reminded you of, maybe a relative wore it, or you remembered seeing the bottle on their vanity table, did you like the bottle design), who knows, perhaps someone from the company brand might see it.

Also, if you have any information not seen here, please comment and share with all of us.

Featured Post

Faking Perfume Bottles to Increase Their Value

The issue of adding "after market" accents to rather plain perfume bottles to increase their value is not new to the world o...