thumb|Penhaligon's store in the Burlington Arcade, London '''Penhaligon's''' is a British perfume house founded in the late 1860s by William Henry Penhaligon, a Cornish barber who moved to London and became Court Barber and Perfumer to Queen Victoria.
thumb|Penhaligon's store in the Burlington Arcade, London '''Penhaligon's''' is a British perfume house founded in the late 1860s by William Henry Penhaligon, a Cornish barber who moved to London and became Court Barber and Perfumer to Queen Victoria.
== History == William Penhaligon started his working life as a barber within the London and Provincial Turkish Bath Company's London Hammam at 76 Jermyn Street, one of London's most fashionable streets. As was typical of barbers then, Penhaligon created his own products to sell to his clients, many of whom were politicians of the age. Penhaligon's first shop was within the Turkish baths, with a second entrance directly from the street. This is where Penhaligon created his signature perfume, Hammam Bouquet. The second shop opened at 33 St James's Street and was attached to the Jermyn Street store at the rear. In the late 1920s, the business moved to Bury Street. The original buildings were destroyed in The Blitz in 1941, but the store on Bury Street remained untouched. The Bury Street premises operated until the mid-1950s, when Penhaligon's was purchased by Geo. F. Trumper, continuing to be manufactured from the basement of Trumper's Curzon Street premises, and slowly fell into obscurity until the brand was revived and a shop opened in Wellington Street, Covent Garden in 1977.
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