The Perfume Shop is a United Kingdom perfume retailer founded in 1992 and owned by A.S. Watson (Health & Beauty UK) Ltd, which is part of the A.S. Watson Group. The A.S. Watson Group acquired The Perfume Shop in 2005. The company is based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, with a distribution centre in Dunstable. It is the second largest fragrance retailer in the UK.^[2]

This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. (December 2012)

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The Perfume Shop

Company type	Subsidiary
Traded as	The Perfume Shop
Industry	Retail
Founded	1992
Headquarters	High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK
Number of locations	269 (2016)
Area served	UK & Ireland
Key people	Gill Smith (Managing Director) Peter Mcnab (CEO Health & Beauty UK) Dominic Lai (Group Managing Director)
Products	Perfume, Aftershave, Fragrance
Owner	A.S. Watson Group
Number of employees	1400 (2010)[1]
Parent	CK Hutchison Holdings
Website	http://www.theperfumeshop.com/

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The Perfume Shop started in 1992. When bought by Merchant Retail Group plc in 1991, it was originally called EauZone. Eauzone had six stores but three were closed down immediately, with only Guildford, Portsmouth and Basingstoke being retained. That year, The Perfume Shop also opened in Meadowhall, Sheffield and The Glades Shopping Centre, Bromley (now Intu). Typically, The Perfume Shop trades from smaller shops than many other retailers and they averaged 400 square feet. Half of their sales came in the six weeks before Christmas. It became a classic brick and mortar operation with both high street shops and a website.

Since 2010^[update], it has operated a shop in shop concept at Superdrug stores. The project was initially trialled with 11 stores including Aylesbury, Milton Keynes, Bury, Glasgow, and Westfield London.

In September 2011, it launched a loyalty card scheme named ‘Rewards Club’.