The launch of Narcisse Noir: Caron, 1912

A dated launch: the year, the house and the perfumer are the conservatory’s; the fragrance record holds the rest of what is documented.

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Date

1912 (year)

documented

Narcisse Noir CARON 1912 EXT Floral Solinote Narcisse Ernest Daltroff

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

the Osmothèque gives 1912 (the Wikidata statement of a year was not used: its only reference is a source the house does not use)

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

Caron launches Narcisse Noir, by Ernest Daltroff.

documented

Narcisse Noir CARON 1912 EXT Floral Solinote Narcisse Ernest Daltroff

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

• Ernest Daltroff (perfumer)
  documented

  Narcisse Noir CARON 1912 EXT Floral Solinote Narcisse Ernest Daltroff

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

  confidence A

Where the sources disagree

• Launch year: 1912 in the Osmothèque’s list (OSMO-1); Wikidata gives 1911 (WD-1), but that statement’s only reference is a source the house does not use, so it is not used. (OSMO-1, WD-1)

Perfumers

• Ernest Daltroff

Fragrances

• Narcisse Noir

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. 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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this record as data: /data/event/narcisse-noir-launch.json · version 2 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A