EUGENE RIMMEL AND THE INVENTION OF THE MASCARA A French perfumer moved to London in 1830 and opened his own store, The House of Rimmel, with his son Eugène Rimmel, in 1834, on Albemarle Street. Eugène Rimmel was the most important perfumer of the 19th century, being the personal perfumer of the Queen Victoria. His perfumes were offered to the market in bottles of Baccarat crystal. In the Universal Exhibition in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, in London, in 1851, he designed a fountain of perfumes, decorating the Pavilion of entrance.