Elizabeth Arden was a Canadian businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. Elizabeth 
Arden (Dec 31, 1878 - Oct 19, 1966) Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, where she lived until she was twenty-four years old. In 1909 Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto.Arden 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. In 1912, Arden travelled to France to learn beauty and facial massage techniques used in the Paris beauty salons. She returned with a collection of rouges and tinted powders she had created. In an era when it was only acceptable for stage performers to wear makeup, Arden introduced modern eye makeup to North America. She also introduced the concept of the makeover in her salons
Arden (Dec 31, 1878 - Oct 19, 1966) Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, where she lived until she was twenty-four years old. In 1909 Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto.Arden 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. In 1912, Arden travelled to France to learn beauty and facial massage techniques used in the Paris beauty salons. She returned with a collection of rouges and tinted powders she had created. In an era when it was only acceptable for stage performers to wear makeup, Arden introduced modern eye makeup to North America. She also introduced the concept of the makeover in her salons.... Today The Elizabeth Arden's cosmetics company continues to trade today, and was bought from Unilever in 2003 by FFI, a New York company. They changed their name to Elizabeth Arden, and are listed on the NASDAQ (RDEN). The current 'face' of Elizabeth Arden is Catherine Zeta Jones. Since Arden's death, some of the company's focus has shifted to the development of a number of fragrance lines.
The company's signature fragrance is called Red Door named after their day spas which are called Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salons. Other fragrance and perfume within their own line are Fifth Avenue, Green Tea, Provocative Woman and their newest, Mediteranian. The company also holds the license to the Hilary Duff fragrance With Love... Hilary Duff, and Britney Spears fragrances, Curious, Fantasy, Curious: In Control, Midnight Fantasy and Believe ; Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds, Passion, Forever Elizabeth, and Gardenia; the latest success has been the launching of Mariah Carey's own parfum M by Mariah Carey. In 2006 Elizabeth Arden acquired the fragrance portfolio from Riviera Concepts. The newly acquired brands include Alfred Sung, the Hummer fragrance franchise, Cynthia Rowley, Lulu Guinness, Bob Mackie, and Badgley Mischka...