The launch of Le Chypre: Coty, 1917

The Osmothèque lists it in the chypre family. The same list has earlier chypres, so the record does not call it the start of the family; the teaching chypre accord shows the structure.

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Date

1917 (year)

documented

Chypre (Le) 1° Édition COTY 1917 EXT Chypré François Coty

OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30
OSMO-2 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30
WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

Wikidata gives the same year (a second witness)

confidence A

Label

documented (a source states it)

house label

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

one of the four labels the site gives a reconstruction, chosen from what the cited source itself says

confidence B

Kind

launch

house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the house’s grouping of events for the timeline

confidence B

What happened

Coty launches Le Chypre, by François Coty.

documented

Chypre (Le) 1° Édition COTY 1917 EXT Chypré François Coty

OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Place

not on record

not on record

no place on record for this event

People

• François Coty (perfumer)
  documented

  Chypre (Le) 1° Édition COTY 1917 EXT Chypré François Coty

  OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30

  confidence A

Where the sources disagree

• Not the earliest chypre on record: the same Osmothèque list has a "Chypre de Paris" (Guerlain, 1909) and an eighteenth-century "Poudre de Chypre"; the site’s own page says Coty "invented the Chypre family", which this record does not repeat. (OSMO-1)

Perfumers

• François Coty

Fragrances

• Le Chypre

Teaching accords

• The chypre skeleton

Sources

1. OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums. Collection Osmothèque, juin 2015 (PDF list: name, house, launch year, concentration, family, sub-family, perfumers). www.osmotheque.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Col… · read 2026-09-30 · no reuse licence stated; short quotes and single facts only, under fair use (quoted, not reproduced)
2. OSMO-2 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums. La collection (web page). www.osmotheque.fr/la-collection/ · read 2026-09-30 · no reuse licence stated; short quotes and single facts only, under fair use (quoted, not reproduced)
3. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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