A family that made its fortune in perfumes sold their late mother’s waterfront Boca Raton mansion for $31.5 million in an off-market deal. It marks one of the most expensive homes ever traded in the city’s gated Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club community.
The estate of Barbara Voorhees sold the house at 1788 Royal Palm Way to a land trust named for the address and managed by attorney Jeffrey D. Fisher, records show. The true buyer is hidden.
Louise Buehler with Douglas Elliman had the listing, and David Roberts with Royal Palm Properties brought the buyer.
Voorhees was the wife of the late Kenneth G. Voorhees, Jr., the longtime president of his family’s perfumery business, Ungerer & Company. Based in Lincoln Park, New Jersey, the firm was founded in 1893 and produces scents and flavors for food and cosmetics companies. He died in 2019, and Barbara Voorhees died in April.
She bought the mansion for $16.8 million in 2020, property records show. Built in 2010 on 0.4 acres, the 8,500-square-foot mansion has five bedrooms, six bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, a pool and a dock, according to records.
The off-market sale falls just shy of the $36 million deal that set the Boca Raton price record last year. Constant Contact founder Randy Parker and his family sold their longtime 1.7-acre waterfront estate, considered a teardown, to local spec builders Steve and Scott Dingle. It first hit the market for $52 million in 2023.
Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club is Boca Raton’s most expensive neighborhood, and the center of the city’s luxury sales. Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is renting a mansion in Royal Palm for his off-season training. In October, a trust tied to waste management boss Brendan Pantano bought a spec mansion for $19.8 million. In August, Conair scion Leandro Rizzuto Jr. bought a mansion for $18.5 million.