What is Elizabeth Arden?
Everyone and their grandmother (particularly Catherine Zeta Jones’ grandmother) has heard of the brand’s rejuvenating properties. Elizabeth Arden has become famous for many stellar perfume and skincare products such as the Eight Hour Cream, PREVAGE Anti-Ageing Serum, Red Door Perfume and Advanced Ceramide Capsules.
With over 110 years at the helm of the beauty industry, the brand has made many notable contributions: supplying a defiant shade of “Montezuma Red” in support of the suffragette movement, becoming the first company to introduce eye-makeup to American women and the first to conceptualise travel-size products.
The Elizabeth Arden brand was created to empower and validate women. It pioneered modern-day practices such as scientific approaches to cosmetic formulation and has since become a household name.
How did Elizabeth Arden start her business?
Arden (born Florence Nightingale Graham December 31, 1884 - October 18, 1966), made her foray into the beauty industry in 1910. After establishing a business with Elizabeth Hubbard, they opened the doors of their first Red Door Salon on Fifth Avenue. Though the partnership dissolved in 1914, she opened her own and rebranded as Elizabeth Arden. The brand was founded on innovation and female empowerment through beauty.
Make-up and beauty products were heavily frowned upon. Arden sought to change this as she believed that it could be wielded as a tool to enhance women’s natural features; not hide it. The entrepreneur was instrumental in modifying the lens through which beauty was looked at. Such was her influence on the general public and faith in her uncompromising vision that she succeeded in opening salons in New York, Washington D.C., London and Paris.
Must-have Elizabeth Arden perfumes
The Arden brand is revered for its sumptuous Green Tea and White Tea perfume. However, here is what our Mojeh staff can’t stop raving about:
Elizabeth Arden 5th Avenue
Elizabeth Arden 5th Avenue is an emblem of all things prestigious and lavish. The excitement and thrill of one of the most famous streets in the world has been captured in a mere glass bottle. With a fresh and floral bouquet, the parfum was made with the modern woman in mind. Key notes in this fragrance are dewy magnolia, violet and amber.
Elizabeth Arden Red Door
Released in 1989, the Red Door perfume has become a nostalgic scent for many. It offers a complex and abundant melange of rich and rare floral scents. The top notes of lily of the valley, freesia and wild violets draw you in with their floral aromas. The beating heart of Red Door is a concoction of Red Rose, Jasmine, African Orange Flower, and Ylang-Ylang. Finally, the base notes of Honey, Oak Moss, and Sandalwood linger with the promise of more.
Elizabeth Arden Modern Muse
Modern muse was created as an ode to womanhood. Composed of accords of sparkling jasmine (representing femininity) and sleek woods (representing durability), the perfume captures the duality of strength and softness.
Must have Elizabeth Arden beauty products
So many to choose from where do we start? Here’s our beauty editor’s pick:
The Eight-Hour Cream
Dubbed fit for royalty, Elizabeth Arden’s eight-hour cream has earned its cult status over the decades. While reaching the grand age of 96 may not be entirely due to the cream, it certainly maintained the Queen’s beaming complexion. Created in 1930, this product has reached mystical levels of popularity again and again. The Skin Protectant has been hailed as a multi-purpose balm to moisturise, soothe and protect as well as cosmetically. The range has now expanded to include Lip Repair Balm, All-Over Body Oil, and Nighttime Miracle Moisturiser among others.
Ceramide Capsules
Though the ceramide capsules may be a singular dose of youth-restoring serum, they pack quite the punch. These wonder capsules have been hailed as age-defying, enhancing the skin’s barrier repair function and making tired skin supple and smoother. The secret behind this miracle formula? The ceramide technology helps restore depleted ceramides (lipids) and bolsters the skin’s moisture layer.
Prevage Anti ageing Daily Serum
Prevage Antiaging Daily Serum and Prevage Antiaeging Daily Serum 2.0 are both powered by idebenone, which Elizabeth Arden has called “the single most powerful antioxidant.” It targets ageing at the cellular source meaning this serum leaves skin looking buoyant, removes the appearance of fine lines and visibly reverses signs of decline.
Flawless Finish Sponge-on Cream
The flawless finish sponge-on cream range is composed of 19 luscious shades ranging from ecru, toasty beige, mocha, cacao and more. Imbued with micronised diamond powder, this light-reflecting cream diminishes the appearance of harsh lines and discolouration to leave you with a radiant finish. So flawless is it that it offers medium-full coverage for up to 12 hours!
Where to buy Elizabeth Arden beauty products?
Buy Elizabeth Arden In the United Arab Emirates
Sephora offers a wide range of Elizabeth Arden skincare and makeup products inlocations across Dubai, including The Dubai Mall and Mall of the Emirates. Debenhams features Elizabeth Arden products in major malls such as Abu Dhabi Mall and Marina Mall. Bloomingdale's features Elizabeth Arden products in The Dubail Mall. You can also head to Paris Gallery, a luxury retailer offering Elizabeth Arden fragrances and cosmetics with stores in Sahara Centre, or to Jashanmal in malls like Dubai Festival City Mall.
Buy Elizabeth Arden In Qatar
Head to Sephora in Villagio Mall and Doha Festival City, Debenhams in City Center Doha, Paris Gallery in Villagio Mall and Landmark Mall, Fifty One East at Al Maha Center or Harvery Nichols at Doha FEstival City.
Buy Elizabeth Arden In Saudi Arabia
Head to Sephora, Debenhams, Paris Gallery, Jashanmal & Bloomingdale’s.
Buy Elizabeth Arden In Switzerland
In Geneva, select outlets such as Globus, Theodora, and Import Parfumerie Geneva stock both Elizabeth Arden’s skincare and fragrance ranges. For Arden aficionados in Zurich, Sephora typically offers a wide range of the brand’s products.
Many of Zurich’s Import Parfumerie’s will also house her unmissable scents.
Buy Elizabeth Arden Online
If you’re not based in any of the previous locations, fear not. The Elizabeth Arden website will give you all the necessary information regarding where to buy, what to buy and how to get your order to you as quickly as possible.
Celebrities Who Can’t Get Enough Of Elizabeth Arden
Reese Witherspoon
As the brand’s storyteller-in-chief, Reese Whitherspoon sees much of her own passion reflected in Elizabeth Arden’s work. In 2019, Witherspoon brought us the Beautiful Colour Moisturising Lipstick in support of UN Women, proving that lippy is never just that.
Catherine Zeta Jones
Catherine Zeta Jones has long been the picture of perennial perfection. We’re not shocked to find out that Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Cream has something to do with it. After watching her grandmother apply it for years, Zeta-Jones followed suit and hasn’t looked back since.
Prince Harry
Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Cream became even more legendary after Prince Harry revealed in his memoir that it helped him through a particularly frosty ordeal. In his memoir, he disclosed that Princess Diana was also quite fond of it. So miraculous was the cream’s impact on him and the public impression that a tube was sold every 30 seconds following his confession in 2020.
Mariah Carey
All I Want For Christmas (and every other day) is M by Mariah Carey and Elizabeth Arden. Launched in 2007, it marked the debut fragrance of Carey. The perfume offers a balance of intense and delicate aromas that merge to create a feminine and sensual scent.
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham is another fervent member of the Eight Hour Cream cult. For many A-listers, it has become something which they simply cannot go without.
