Showing posts with label Lournay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lournay. Show all posts

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Parfumerie Lournay

In this guide I have listed the various perfumes introduced by Lournay of 4 rue de la Paix, Paris.




Lournay was a Franco-American company established in 1900 at 4 rue de la Paix, Paris, later at 7 rue de l'Isly, Paris and Milwaukee, WI. In 1924, Parfumerie Lournay moved their offices at 366 Fifth Ave to 509 Fifth Ave New York City. Chandon & Co represented and distributed Lournay in the 1920s. In 1923, Palmolive, through stock ownership controled the perfume and powder business of Lournay, Inc.

They produced low-priced to luxury perfume presentations until 1945, when they were acquired by Colgate. Lournay Imported Toilet Preparations included such items as Lournay's Lemon Cream, cold creams, Glycerine & Rosewater lotions, and perfumes.

After 1940, the company produced mainly cosmetics and skin preparations. Company still in business during 1988 when Colgate-Palmolive Co. launched the Lournay skincare line for sensitive skin based on natural botanicals. However, it was not very successful and the Lournay line was discontinued in 1989.



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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.

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