Michael's story
The story
et nicknamed 'the mine.' The Bodenham family took over Floris in 1878 when James R.D. Bodenham married Mary Anne Floris and assumed the business from her brother Joseph.
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Michael
Bodenham
Michael Bodenham was a seventh-generation master perfumer at Floris, first formulating the house's fragrance No. 89 in 1951 and later creating Floris Elite. D. Bodenham married Mary Anne Floris and assumed the business from her brother Joseph.
- Earliest in our catalog
- Elite, 1980
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- 1 fragrances
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