Carolina Herrera is owned by Puig (Spain, BME: PUIG), which acquired the brand in 1995.[1][2] Carolina Herrera was founded in 1980 in New York and was independent until 1995.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Puig Brands, S.A. Annual Report 2025, 27 February 2026. Last checked .
Carolina Herrera was founded in New York in 1980 by the Venezuelan designer, and its Good Girl fragrance, sold in a stiletto-shaped bottle, is among the largest women's fragrance launches of the last decade. Puig acquired the house in 1995.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Puig controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in personal care & beauty.
Puig has more brands in fragrance on Brandtree than any other owner: 5 of 20.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| AERIN | Estée Lauder | 🇺🇸 United States |
| O Boticário | Grupo Boticário | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Eskulin | Kino Indonesia | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Creed | L'Oréal | 🇫🇷 France |
| Brut | Unilever | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Jafra | Betterware (BeFra) | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Chanel No. 5 | Chanel | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Twelve Plus | Osotspa | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
Puig is a publicly listed company headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, founded in 1914. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as BME: PUIG.
Puig was founded in Barcelona in 1914 by a Catalan perfumer and remains controlled by the third generation of the founding family, which retained voting control when the company listed in Madrid in 2024. It owns rather than licenses most of its fragrance houses, which is unusual in the industry.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Carolina Herrera among them.
Puig acquired the Carolina Herrera house, founded in New York in 1980 by a Venezuelan designer who had dressed Jacqueline Onassis. Puig had already been making its fragrances under licence, and buying the house outright is the pattern the Spanish family group has followed repeatedly. Only the year is documented here.
The parent company of Carolina Herrera is Puig, a publicly listed company headquartered in Spain.
Carolina Herrera originated in the United States in 1980, but it is owned today by Puig, which is headquartered in Spain. So Carolina Herrera is an American-origin brand under Spanish ownership.
Puig completed its acquisition of Carolina Herrera in 1995, after announcing the deal in 1995. The price was not disclosed.
Carolina Herrera was an independent company from its founding in 1980 in New York until Puig acquired it in 1995.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Carolina Herrera is still owned by Puig. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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