Who owns Darphin?
Darphin is owned by Estée Lauder (the United States, NYSE: EL), which has owned the brand since 2003.[1]
Evidence: The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-19, SEC EDGAR, 19 August 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- Founded
- 1958
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Skin care › Dermocosmetics & clinical skin care
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: EL
- Trademark registrant
- ELCO (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Darphin
Darphin was founded in Paris in 1958 by a physiotherapist who developed aromatic oils and facial massage techniques for skin treatment. Estée Lauder acquired the brand in 2003 and sells it through spas and pharmacies. Its essential oil elixirs, sold in small glass bottles for specific skin concerns, remain the products most associated with the house.
What Estée Lauder's annual report says about Darphin
Sentences about Darphin from Estée Lauder's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Acquired in 2003, Darphin is a Paris-based, prestige skin care brand known for its high-performance morphological skin science.
How often Estée Lauder names Darphin in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central.
Trademark record for Darphin
The USPTO record for the Darphin mark lists ELCO as the owner of record (serial number 77978488). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Darphin
- 2003 – present Estée Lauder [1] verified
Where Darphin sits in Estée Lauder
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 13 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
- AERIN (2012)
- Aveda (1978)
- Bobbi Brown (1991)
- Clinique (1968)
- Estée Lauder (1946)
- Jo Malone London (1990)
- La Mer (1965)
- M·A·C (1984)
- Origins (1990)
- The Ordinary (2016)
- Tom Ford Beauty (2006)
- Too Faced (1998)
Other brands in dermocosmetics & clinical skin care, and who owns them
The 42 brands in dermocosmetics & clinical skin care on Brandtree belong to 22 owners. The largest is Ego Pharmaceuticals, with 9.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| DermAid | Ego Pharmaceuticals | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Biretix | Cantabria Labs | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| CeraVe | L'Oréal | 🇫🇷 France |
| A-Derma | Pierre Fabre | 🇫🇷 France |
| Dermalogica | Unilever | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Minon | Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Alastin | Galderma | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| A-Solution | Aekyung | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
Every brand in dermocosmetics & clinical skin care and its owner →
About the owner: Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, United States, founded in 1946. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: EL.
The Estée Lauder Companies was founded in New York in 1946 by Estée and Joseph Lauder. It sells prestige beauty through department stores, travel retail and specialty channels, and the Lauder family retains voting control.
Estée Lauder: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇫🇷 Darphin and other French brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 322 brands that began in France. 100 of them (31%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Darphin among them.
- A-Derma — Pierre Fabre 🇫🇷
- Axe — Unilever 🇬🇧
- BIC Razors — BIC 🇫🇷
- Bioderma — NAOS 🇫🇷
- Botot — Bolton Group 🇮🇹
- Chanel No. 5 — Chanel 🇬🇧
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Darphin?
The parent company of Darphin is Estée Lauder, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Darphin French or American?
Darphin originated in France in 1958, but it is owned today by Estée Lauder, which is headquartered in the United States. So Darphin is a French-origin brand under American ownership.
Since when has Estée Lauder owned Darphin?
Estée Lauder has owned Darphin since 2003.
Is Darphin still owned by Estée Lauder?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Darphin is still owned by Estée Lauder. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-19 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 19 August 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: DARPHIN, serial 77978488 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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