House of 4711

This colony comes from Cologne, as the name suggests, and it couldn't be any other way. The invention is the work of Johann Maria Farina ve turned Cologne into the first aroma factory in the world, in the 19th century and, in turn, the invention made this German city internationally famous. Soon after kings and rich people met there and the virtues of cologne water were soon considered a luxury item. The company was called Mühlens and they bought a fake license, so they were forced not to use the Farina name, so instead they used the house number in the name, 4711, which has made it famous to this day.