In the 17th century the tulip was a precious item that bloomed in the gardens of Turkish 1709 palaces. The Dutch paid huge amounts of Farina establishes the world’s oldest 1709 SINCESEIT 1709 1709 money for a bulb of this beautiful flower. perfume manufactory, invention of EAU DE COLOGNE, Queen Anne, SEIT 1709 2011 Farina, who desired an image of great beauty for his tra- St Paul’s Cathedral completed, Louis XV, demark and his products, chose a red tulip for the original Mme. Du Barry, the Georgian Age, Handel’s Messiah, Casanova, Mozart, Dr. Samuel Johnson, earthquake in Lisbon, perfume. Versailles, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, The world´s oldest fragrance steam engines and early Industrial Revolution, company Tours take place every hour on the hour in more than 10 French Revolution, Napoleon, Admiral Nelson, Fragrance languages. Duration 45 minutes. Please book in advance. Beethoven From over 300 yearsSEIT of Farina1709 perfume bottles Museum 1809 Prices: Battle of Waterloo, Congress of Vienna, Farina-House Jane Austen, J.M.W. Turner, Jacques Offenbach, Standard tour: Paganini concerts at Farina, Cologne 5 euros incl. admission and perfume sample USA buys Florida, later Alaska, age of railways, Ref. 111 Ref. 121 Ref. 122 Ref. 123 opium wars, British Empire, 15ml 30ml 50ml 125ml Historical tour: Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, 9 euros incl. admission and perfume sample cholera in London, The perfumer Farina (role played by M.M. Lysakowski) completion of Cologne Cathedral, Queen Victoria visits Farina, takes you back to his time, the Rococo period. Karl Marx, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens

Private tour for up to 20 persons: 80 euros 1909 Private historical tour for up to 20 persons: 160 euros Flying machines, 1st World War, Russian Revolution, Ref. 150 Ref. 151 Ref. 104 6ml 6x6ml 250ml Treaty of Versailles, Opening times: Rolls Royce, Titanic, Charlie Chaplin, Weekdays 10 am – 7 pm Coco Chanel, Marlene Dietrich, Albert Einstein, Sunday 10 am – 4 pm General Strike in Britain and Great Depression, 2nd World War, Queen Elizabeth II, wars in Korea and Vietnam, Dior’s new look, Marilyn Monroe, Please check our website Rolling Stones and Beatles, for guided tours in english: Britain enters the European Community, www.farina.org end of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain, Ref. 183 Ref. 5 death of Princess Diana, 100ml 125ml wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, world financial crisis 2009 SEIT 1709 2009 300 years of Farina – EAU DE COLOGNE Award-winning sculpture. on 13 July 2009 Farina celebrated its 300th anniversary. Bronze head with eyes and TheSEIT 300-year 1709 “Future” the new bottle for the next century. Don’t look ears covered. and listen, but let your feelings guide you: use your nose Content: success story of 125ml of Eau de Cologne Eau de Cologne began here Farina-House Opening times Obenmarspforten 21 • 50667 Köln/Cologne Weekdays 10 am - 7 pm Ref. 2 1709 Tel.: +49 (0)221 3 99 89 94 Sunday 10 am - 4 pm 100ml Rosolie-Flacon. www.farina.org • [email protected] Ref. 902 Stairs. Bel étage. Rococo. RWWA – Business Archive of Rhineland-Westphalia. The room of precious essences. The famous safe is in the next department. Let us carry you away into the sensual world of the perfumer What awaits you on the bel étage? To music by Carlo Farina, a 17th-century composer, descend Everything that Farina tells you is documented in the The essence rooms: hundreds of perfume oils in small phials. Johann Maria Farina (1685-1766). Rococo, the art of Selected flacons, the history of the house and its furnishings, one storey to the office. Until 1760 Farina worked at this archives of Rhineland-Westphalia (RWWA, 1709-2000) and Here you learn why Farina is known as the father of the luxurious living. This is where Farina invented the epoch- portraits and the family tree of the Farinas, porcelain and Portuguese desk. The showcases display the history of the Paris (1251-1709). There are fascinating criminal stories of modern art of perfume. How are essences made? making perfume that is still a sensation today. silver goblets from which Ludwig II of Bavaria drank as a flacons, from the “rosolie” to designs by painters such as imitators and counterfeiters and amusing attempts at The secrets of extraction, enfleurage and distillation are Eau de Cologne was the name he gave to his perfume, which guest at Farina. See how in the 18th-century world making a Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Here, at a site built on Roman deception from the time when brands had no legal protection revealed. All of your questions are answered. reminded him of an Italian spring morning after rain. purchase became an art form. walls, experience 2000 years of Cologne history. – inventions by the house of 4711, which was founded a It was pure luxury. century, later about a monk and its number.

Entrance. Office. Plagiary and forgeries. In the 18th century workers bottled the precious fluid by hand. Exquisite silver goblet, Farina portraits. View of the house.

Above the statue of the perfumer Johann Maria Farina (1685-1766), the inventor of Eau de Cologne,

Asian sample case in ivory, the glockenspiel plays every hour. gold and mother-of-pearl.