BY SPECIAL REQUEST, MORE ABOUT THE PERFUME FACTORY, COMPAGNIE PARENTO

Welcome to EverythingCroton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON. 

We're always on the look-out for anything about the "Perfume Factory" a.k.a. Compagnie Parento, that used to be located on Brook Street (click on the photo, courtesy of The Croton Historical Society). 

So when we came across these bits and pieces about the factory--and its founders or officers--we just had to share.

For those who don't know, COMPARGIE PARENTO is still in existence today.

According to their website, Addington Doolittle, founder of Compagnie Parento, Inc. believed it was time to break the American dependency on imported perfumes and start an American manufacturing operation. Compagnie Parento, Inc. began creating and producing fragrance oils in the United States just after the turn of the 20th century.  (Click on the article from 1930 about a film he made after touring perfume centers in France and Bulgaria).

Eugene C. Barton, one of the founding members of the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM), was the second owner of Compagnie Parento, Inc.

Click on the article about Barton from 1974, courtesy of The Croton Historical Society archives. 

You can read more about Compagnie Parento today, their history too (and their subsidiary Flavor Sciences as well) at their website:  http://compagnieparento.com/ 

We also forgot about this 1945 clipping about Eugene Barton speaking before the Croton-Harmon Home Bureau on "THE HISTORY & ROMANCE OF PERFUMES".  Click on the image.

YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY:

--MORE ON CROTON'S PERFUME FACTORY, 1922, A RARE FIND; AN OLD AD; click here  

Note: All content on this blog is Copyright (c) by Maria Cudequest and by those who have contributed specific content. All material is for your personal use only. No content or photos may be republished or sold, without prior written consent from your editor and the individual who contributed the content in question. For permissions or questions about this policy, please contact the editor.