Roger and Gallet

Roger et Gallet are a firm of French perfumiers which was founded by merchant Charles Armand Roger and banker Charles Martial Gallet in 1862. They started by buying a Parisian eau-de-Cologne business which had been founded in 1806 by a member of the Farina family and then won a legal dispute over the right to use the family name. They specialised in toilet soap which was produced in a large factory near Paris. Later in the 19th century, they were successful with the newly synthesised fragrance of violet, for which they had the French rights, producing perfumes such as Vera Violetta.