The building was transformed into an aroma factory that changed owners frequently. The last one was the company – Pollena Aroma. The Company cooperated with Bronisław Radziszewski – a man who invented the first synthesis of phenyl alcohol. No, it wasn’t drinking alcohol. We are in Poland, but it was no vodka. Phenyl alcohol has the scent of a rose and is used in the perfume industry, of course. Its production was a bull’s eye for Pollena. In 1971 the company became one of the major exporters of fragrances supplying the world’s most famous perfumery companies. Therefore we can say that this alcohol did not destroy anyone’s life. On the contrary, many Pollena employees got rich thanks to this kind of alcohol.
It is also worth mentioning that this fragrance refers to beautiful history. At the end of the fourteenth century, Elżbieta Łokietkówna of the Polish Piast dynasty, ruling Hungary, created and propagated the first alcoholic perfume in history in Europe – “Queen of Hungary’s Water” (Aqua Reginae Hungaricae), which were the most popular fragrance and medicine at all European courts and are still sold today in the LIBERTY warehouse in London. In 2000, a replica of this famous perfume appeared on the Polish market in exclusive packaging, recreated by perfumers and artists. That’s a very interesting fact. So far, we associated Hungary with The Kelenföld Power Plant and The Red Star Train Graveyard. From today this group is joined by perfumes with phenyl alcohol.