In this guide I have listed the various perfumes presented by the Colgate Company of Jersey City, NJ from 1879 to 1959.

The Colgate's Soap and Perfumery Works, later Colgate-Palmolive, was founded in 1806 by William Colgate. Colgate, an English immigrant, set up a starch, soap and candle business on Dutch Street in New York City. Frances Smith was made a partner in the following year and the firm became Smith and Colgate. William Colgate bought out his partner in 1813, the name was then changed to William Colgate & Co.

The company moved from New York to NJ and the factory was completed in 1847. The name Colgate & Company was first adopted in 1857, after the death of William Colgate. Colgate & Company began getting into perfume and calling themselves perfumers in 1866.

In 1866, the company introduced perfumed soap and began the manufacture of perfumes and essences. Six years later Cashmere Bouquet, the first milled perfumed toilet soap, was registered as a trademark.

Colgate & Company produced its first toothpaste, an aromatic dental cream sold in jars. Then, in 1896, the company made toothpaste much more convenient to use by introducing the first collapsible toothpaste tube, one similar to those in use today.

Meanwhile in Milwaukee, the B.J Johnson Soap Company, founded in 1864, was about to change its destiny. In 1898 the company introduced Palmolive Soap, a product that was so successful it prompted B.L. Johnson to change its name to the Palmolive Company in 1916.

By its 100th anniversary, Colgate & Company,was manufacturing dental care products, laundry soaps, 160 different kinds of toilet soap and 625 varieties of perfume.

Meanwhile, The US Palmolive Company was expanding too. In 1926 it merged with the soap manufacturers Peet Brothers in Kansas City to form Palmolive-Peet Company. Two years later, this company merged with Colgate & Company and the new entity was known as the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company.

By 1972, Colgate was trademarking its fragrances and using bottles which bore a Colgate trademark symbol. This bottle lacks that symbol.

I have listed all the perfumes I have been able to find,I do know that 625 perfumes were available by 1920, if there is one I missed, please let me know. Thanks

The perfumes of Colgate:

• 1879 Wedding March
• 1880 Cassie
• 1880s Heliotrope
• 1883 Caprice
• 1886 Speciosa
• 1887 Cashmere Bouquet
• 1890 Coleo
• 1890 Fleurette
• 1897 Vioris
• 1900 Young People's Perfumes (set)
• 1900 Eclat
• 1900 Splendor
• 1900 Violet Water
• 1900 La France Rose Water
• 1900 Holiday Bouquet
• 1900 Christmas Bouquet
• 1901 Dactylis
• 1901 Monad Violet
• 1903 Viodora
• 1904 Fantasy
• 1904 Week-End
• 1905 Knickerbocker
• 1906 Carnival Violets
• 1906 Robinia
• 1908 Eleda
• 1910 Lilac Imperial Toilet Water
• 1910 Caprice Toilet Water
• 1912 Florrent
• 1914 Radiant
• 1915 Vision de Fleurs
• 1917 Cha Ming
• 1917 Les Fleurs Favorites
• 1920 Dawn
• 1920 Myself
• 1921 Florient
• 1921 Allegro
• 1921 Apple Blossom
• 1921 Sandalay
• 1921 Hope
• 1921 The Unknown Flower
• 1921 Princess Harran
• 1921 Clair de Lune
• 1921 Atta
• 1921 Piquante
• 1922 Fi Fi
• 1922 Roses From Araby
• 1922 Violets From The Riviera
• 1922 Violette de Mai
• 1922 La France Rose
• 1922 Alba Violet
• 1922 Orchis
• 1922 Italian Violets
• 1922 La Liberte
• 1922 Pansy Blossom
• 1923 Egypt
• 1923 Amarna
• 1923 Bast
• 1923 Khepera
• 1923 Kahira
• 1923 Watch Case
• 1924 Andor, reissued in 1954
• 1925 Colgate Fleurs
• 1926 Dona Flor
• 1926 Night
• 1926 Piquant
• 1927 Orchis
• 1928 Seventeen
• 1936 Parami
• 1949 Facade
• 1959 Man Trap

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