Why it belongs in ORBIS
Roger & Gallet is a Paris fragrance house founded in 1862, with an earlier connection to Jean Marie Farina's cologne business. Its range brings together cologne and scented waters with round soaps and other fragranced body products. The soaps retain the house's cauldron-making tradition, including a Cédrat version built around a citrus fragrance.
Roger & Gallet is a Paris fragrance house established in 1862 by Armand Roger and Charles Gallet. Its history reaches further back through Jean Marie Farina's Paris cologne business, which began in 1806. Cologne remains part of the house's identity alongside scented soaps and body products intended for everyday use.
The round soap introduced in 1879 is a recognisable part of that range, rather than simply a packaging detail. The house still describes a cauldron-making process for its soaps, including the citrus-scented Cédrat version in its current catalogue. Those products provide a different format for fragrance from a bottle of eau de cologne or scented water.
Roger & Gallet's retail history includes the Boutique du Bonheur opened on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré in 1932. Illustrations by artists including Mucha and Icart formed part of the house's presentation, bringing visual design into its fragrance story. That boutique belongs to the house's history: the current catalogue represents the brand, and no current Paris shop to visit has been confirmed. For choosing a product, the useful distinction is between fragrance to wear and scented products for washing or body care.