Fondazione Migone is the reference body for the catalogue of products manufactured and sold under the house's names across nearly two centuries of continuous operation: perfumes, soaps, cosmetics, hair waters, face powders, and extracts. The catalogue is reconstructed from the historical record: period trade catalogues, commercial directories, and the press of the day. The record is not closed.
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A toilet water of the house, among the products purchased by the clientele in the Via Torino 12 courtyard. Advertised as a remedy for baldness, with "before and after" illustrations and verse such as "Sorgi, o Calvo": a promise of efficacy that modern medical research does not support for androgenic alopecia.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.
A historic line of the house, formulated (like many tonics of the era) with lead-based compounds (then called "zucchero di Saturno"): a practice now recognised as hazardous and abandoned industry-wide.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.
The house's face powder. A French industrial journal that visited the factory in 1886 describes the label as a portrait of Venus.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.
A perfumery line that already existed in 1886, with a label showing a Milanese female figure wearing the Iron Crown, according to a French industrial journal that visited the factory that year.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.
The line dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen of Italy already existed in 1886, a connection to the Royal House of Savoy that predates the formal 1931 recognition by decades. The label, according to a French industrial journal that visited the factory that year, showed the letter M inside a star, with a flowering branch on which a butterfly had landed.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.
A perfumery line of the house.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.
A perfumery line of the house.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.
A perfumery line of the house.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.
A perfumery line of the house.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.
A name recorded from the illustrated border of the 1931 "Prezzo Corrente" catalogue cover.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.
A name recorded from the illustrated border of the 1931 "Prezzo Corrente" catalogue cover.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.
A name recorded from the illustrated border of the 1931 "Prezzo Corrente" catalogue cover. Not to be confused with the "Acqua di Milano" advertised in Il Secolo in 1871, the house's oldest known commercial evidence.
Original mark and products: pending scan from the 1931 catalogue.