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Jacob Hooy · Since 1743

The golden tan,
from the house of 1743

A heritage tanning oil for slow days at the club, a deep, even, lasting gold with a botanical soul. From the cabana to the waterline, this is the tan taken seriously.

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Small BatchImported from the Netherlands
Since 1743Amsterdam's oldest botanical house
HofleverancierPurveyor to the Dutch royal household
Palm BeachProudly based in Florida, USA
The House Philosophy

Not a trend.
A tradition.

Tanning oils arrive with every summer and vanish by the next. Haarlemmerbruin has been blended by the same Amsterdam house since 1743, passed down the generations and proven from the North Sea to the Dutch Caribbean, long before sun care was an industry. The golden tan is not this season's look. It is a standing appointment.

Jacob Hooy · Sinds 1743
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The House of Jacob Hooy

Amsterdam's oldest
house of botanicals

In 1743, on Amsterdam's Nieuwmarkt, the young son of an Amsterdam hauler, Jacob Hooy, began selling herbs and spices carried home by Dutch merchant ships. Within two years the stall became the shop on the Kloveniersburgwal that still stands today, wooden drawers labeled in Latin, brass scales, barrels of botanicals, an interior essentially unchanged for nearly three centuries.

Haarlemmer Bruin carries that lineage to the beach: a golden tanning oil in the old Dutch tradition, made exactly as the house has always made it. Golden on the skin, honeyed in the light, quietly luxurious in the way only true heritage manages to be.

The Voyage

Rooted in Amsterdam,
cherished in the Caribbean,
now in America

1743
The Nieuwmarkt

Jacob Hooy, then just twenty one, opens a herb stall on Amsterdam's Nieuwmarkt, trading the spices and botanicals arriving from the East on Dutch merchant ships.

1745
Kloveniersburgwal

The stall becomes a shop on the Kloveniersburgwal canal. Its wooden drawers, labeled in Latin, its barrels and brass scales remain almost untouched to this day.

1800s
Royal Warrant

The house earns the Dutch royal designation of Hofleverancier, purveyor to the royal household, and the stewardship of the Oldenboom family, who keep the Hooy name alive.

Today
Dutch Caribbean

On Bonaire, Curaçao, and Aruba, the golden oil earns its keep under the most honest test there is: equatorial sun and salt water.

2026
Palm Beach

Dutch Botanicals brings Haarlemmer Bruin across the Atlantic, beginning on the island where American coastal style was invented.

Inside the Shop

A shop kept whole
for three centuries

Born in Amsterdam in 1722, Jacob Hooy opened his first drogisterij on the Barndesteeg at twenty one, and soon after settled at the Kloveniersburgwal by the Nieuwmarkt. The shop that grew there is now among the oldest in Amsterdam, its interior of wooden shelving, jute sacks and apothecary jars preserved almost exactly as the eighteenth century left it. These are the objects that keep the house honest.

Above the counter

The Serpent of Asclepius

Carved from a single piece of wood, a great double serpent hangs above the counter, the ancient symbol of the Greek god of medicine and the pride of the shop.

1706 & 1743

The Brass Scales

Two bascule scales with deep brass bowls still stand in the shop, one from 1706 and one from the founding year itself, weighing herbs the same way for nearly three hundred years.

1691 & 1704

The Copper Mortars

Two copper mortars, older than the house itself, carry the inscription Amor vincit omnia. Love conquers all. A fitting motto for a family business.

The interior

Drawers in Latin

Hundreds of wooden drawers and apothecary jars, each labeled in Latin, hold the botanicals. The interior breathes the atmosphere of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

1815

The Royal Warrant

The predicate Hofleverancier, instituted by King Willem I, grants the right to bear the royal coat of arms. It is reserved for houses of proven quality over a century old.

Since 1846

The Oldenboom Family

On the first of June 1846, Jan Christoffel Oldenboom took over the firm. Six generations later the family still leads the house, father to son, keeping the name Jacob Hooy alive.

From the warehouses behind the shop, Jacob Hooy once supplied apothecaries, speculaas bakers and liqueur distillers across the Low Countries. Today the same craft reaches the American coast.

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One House, One Golden Thread

Part of a greater line

Behind this one oil stands a whole family of the house, arriving in Palm Beach in its own time. For now, the original leads the way.

The Oil

Golden by nature,
honest by tradition

I

The Original Recipe

The oil exactly as the house has always blended it. It contains no sunscreen, only the classic golden formula, so treat the sun with the respect of the old school.

II

Botanical & Caring

Enriched with botanical oils and carrot extract, it keeps the skin soft, supple and comfortable in the sun — a finish that reads golden, never greasy.

III

At Home in the Water

Made for people who actually get in the water. Ocean swims, sails and long island days are the point, not the exception.

IV

The Golden Glow

A warm, even, honeyed tan, the kind that reads as a season well spent rather than a single afternoon overdone.

Inside the Bottle

Eight botanicals,
one golden oil

N° 08 · The Botanical Formula

Soybean

Glycine Soja

A light, silky oil that lets the blend glide on evenly and settle softly into the skin.

Bergamot

Citrus Bergamia

A whisper of Italian citrus in the house's warm amber scent.

Lavandin

Lavandula Hybrida

A breath of Provençal lavender fields, a soft herbal note beneath the warm amber.

Sweet Almond

Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis

A gentle, silky oil the apothecaries have trusted for centuries.

Olive

Olea Europaea

Mediterranean richness for a warm, nourished finish.

Sesame

Sesamum Indicum

A light golden oil prized in sun rituals the world over.

Coconut

Cocos Nucifera

The classic beach oil, softening the skin the old island way.

Sunflower

Helianthus Annuus

Soft and weightless, quick to settle into the skin.

From a house that has weighed and blended botanicals since 1743. The complete ingredient list is printed on every bottle.

The Boutique

One oil,
the original

Haarlemmer Bruin Original, 150 ml
Jacob Hooy · Sinds 1743

Haarlemmerbruin

The Original · No Sunscreen

The original recipe for the deepest tint. Contains no protection factor.

No SPF · Classic · 150 ml
$30
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WARNING—This product does not contain a sunscreen and does not protect against sunburn. Repeated exposure of unprotected skin while tanning may increase the risk of skin aging, skin cancer, and other harmful effects to the skin even if you do not burn.
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The Ritual · How to Use It

The sun, taken
seriously slowly

Sunlit skin with water droplets along the collarbone

Every great suncare house sells more than protection, it sells a way of spending the day. Ours is the old European one: unhurried hours, salt on the skin, a glow built over a season rather than an afternoon.

The oil carries a warm botanical scent in the Dutch apothecary tradition, herbs and warm amber rather than candy coconut. Subtle enough for lunch after the beach.

  1. I

    Before the sun

    Apply generously to dry skin fifteen minutes before exposure. The oil absorbs to a satin finish, never slick, never sticky.

  2. II

    In the water

    Water resistant and made for swimmers. Reapply after eighty minutes in the sea, or immediately after towel drying.

  3. III

    Through the day

    The midday sun asks for shade. Take the hours slowly, and give the skin its care again in the evening.

  4. IV

    After the glow

    Rinse, moisturize, repeat tomorrow. The Haarlemmer glow is cumulative, deep, even, and earned.

Palm Beach

At home on America's
most storied island

Palm Beach has always understood the art of the sun, taken slowly, dressed well, never overdone. Haarlemmer Bruin arrives here first because the island's sensibility is our own: heritage over hype, restraint over excess, glow over burn.

Find the golden oil at select boutiques, resorts, and beach clubs along the Avenue and beyond.

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The Campaign, In Motion

Golden hours, moving

Carried to the WaterThe Net Bag
Held to the LightPoolside
Shade & StoneThe Riad

Campaign film by Studio Aliki

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The Caribbean Chapter

Proven in the
Dutch Caribbean

Before Palm Beach came the islands. Haarlemmerbruin is sold across Bonaire and Curaçao through the house's own Caribbean distribution, carried from beach-club boutiques to the island drogist, and delivered from island stock in Kralendijk.

Year-round sun, salt and trade winds make the Dutch Caribbean the hardest test a tanning oil can face. What arrives on the American coast is the island-proven original.

The American Chapter

From the islands
to your coast

Dutch Botanicals is proudly based in Palm Beach, Florida, bringing Haarlemmer Bruin to boutiques, resorts, and beach clubs across the United States, from Worth Avenue outward to both coasts.

Placements are intentionally limited to keep the brand where it belongs: coastal, considered, classy.

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