Penhaligon’s

A London barber named William Henry Penn-Halligan opened a perfumery on Germain Street in 1870, received a royal warrant from Queen Victoria, and the house has continuously held a British monarch's warrant for more than a century. Penn-Halligan began as a court barber and established his Germain Street perfumery in 1870 during the reign of Queen Victoria. The house received its first royal warrant shortly after, a formal designation naming the company as an official supplier to the British royal household, and has held the warrant under successive sovereigns through the 2010s. Poig acquired the brand in 2015 from Hatch, London, adding it to the Spanish group's fragrance portfolio alongside Jean-Paul Gaultier and Paco Rabanne. The continuous royal warrant is commercially more valuable than its ceremonial status suggests.