About

Florence Nightingale Graham, who went by the business name Elizabeth Arden, was a Canadian businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States.

Arden was born in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada in 1966, where she lived until the age of 24. In 1909, Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto.

She then joined her elder brother in New York City, working briefly as a bookkeeper for the E.R. Squibb Pharmaceuticals Company. While there, she spent hours in their lab, learning about skincare. She then worked - again briefly - for Eleanor Adair, an early beauty culturist, as a "treatment girl".

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Who Wears It

Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth, Queen Mother, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Wallis Simpson and Mamie Eisenhower

Perfumes

1934 Blue Grass (W)
1957 Sandalwood (M)
1987 Passion (W)
1989 Passion (M)
1989 Red Door (W)
1991 White Diamonds (W)
1993 Sunflowers (W)
1993 Diamonds & Emeralds (W)
1993 Diamonds & Rubies (W)
1993 Diamonds & Sapphires (W)
1994 True Love (W)
1996 Fifth Avenue (W)
1996 Black Pearls (W)
1998 Splendor (W)
1999 White Diamonds Sparkling (W)
1999 Green Tea (W)
2001 Green Tea Iced (W)
2001 Green Tea Spiced (W)
2001 White Diamonds Brilliant (W)
2002 Forever Elizabeth (W)
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