Talk:Yardley London

Oldest perfume brand claim

User:Aimperator is continuing to insert the claim that Yardley of London (est. 1770) is the world's oldest perfume brand. I have been removing this because there are clearly older perfume brands, such as Farina Gegenüber (est. 1707). User:Aimperator, so far you haven't given any evidence supporting your claim, nor any rebuttal to my repeatedly presented evidence that it is incorrect. Could you kindly do so here so that we can stop this back-and-forth reversion? —Psychonaut (talk) 10:44, 9 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yardley can trace its roots back to 1620, when by your own information you talk about Jonathan Yardley obtaining a Royal Warrant to produce soaps for the entire city of London. You go onto say the details were lost in the Fire of London in 1666, so obnviously Yardley existed prior to 1666, which predates the above mentioned brand by 41 years, and 87 years if you take it back to the original founding of Yardley. Your own information is contradictory to what you are saying above.