About Thymes
- Based in
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Founded
- 1980s
- Known for
- botanical bath and body, home care and home fragrance
Thymes started in the 1980s in its founder's kitchen, where she made fragrant bath and body products by hand using local ingredients and herbs from her own garden. She paid for the start with her own savings and what she had learned running an art gallery. The company lists its address in Minneapolis and makes bath and body products, home care and home fragrance built around botanical perfumery.
The copyright line on its website names CURiO Brands, LLC, of Minneapolis.
Thymes questions
What is botanical perfumery?
Perfumery is the art of making perfume, and botanical means derived from plants, so botanical perfumery is perfume making that draws on plant materials. Thymes describes its fragrances as rooted in botanical perfumery, and the company began in the 1980s with bath and body products its founder made by hand from local ingredients, including herbs from her own garden.
Who owns Thymes?
Thymes began in the 1980s, when its founder made bath and body products by hand in her kitchen, paying for the start with her own savings. Today the copyright line on the Thymes website names CURiO Brands, LLC, with an address in Minneapolis, Minnesota.