Born in Canada in 1878, Elizabeth Arden worked as a nurse for much of her young adult life. While working with various medicinal creams and skin salves she had the idea to create special beauty creams. Elizabeth Arden turned her home kitchen into a beauty laboratory. Having no luck, she left Canada in 1908 for New York in search of success. After meeting a well-trained chemist, she developed a full line-up of beauty creams and perfumes.

Blue Glass, designed in 1934, is one of Elizabeth Arden’s oldest and best fragrances. Developed as a romantic scent, Blue Grass uses aromas of fresh cut flowers, spices and different woods for a well crafted and lavish perfume.

For an everyday fragrance that you can wear to the office, Green Tea is a fabulous choice for the office. It is rejuvenating, capturing the essence of the ancient green tea leaves. This fruity scent combines lemon, amber, musk, peppermint and oakmoss. It is truly the scent of enlightenment. Red Door is the Elizabeth Arden signature fragrance that is also very popular.

Elizabeth Arden’s Mediterranean is a sensuous and romantic fragrance that is evocative of candlelight dinners on the Mediterranean Sea. It uses feminine floras and milky woods to compliment a mix of amber, musk, sandalwood, peach nectar sorbet, damask plum, Sicilian mandarin, star magnolia, wisteria and Madagascar orchid.

Whatever your fragrance style, you can find a perfume you will from Elizabeth Arden. The company also owns the licenses to a variety of other fragrance brands - including popular celebrity fragrance brands - Britney Spears and Mariah Carey.

You can shop for Elizabath Arden Fragrances at Fragrance Direct. They offer authentic perfumes at affordable prices. The Elizabeth Arden Green Tea Gift Set pictured here is just £12.50 (suggested price £26.00). It includes 100ml Eau Parfumee Spray, 100ml Body Lotion, 100ml Shower Gel & 3.7ml Eau Parfumee Mini Splash.