Le Chypre

Trademark Le Chypre is a trademark of its owner. HombreOils is not affiliated with it and describes it for history and education only.

The house, the year, the perfumer and the family are the Osmothèque’s, with a second source named where one agrees or disagrees; it classes it Chypré. This record keeps to documented facts: the year, the house, the perfumer and the family, each with its source; no composition is given beyond what a filed source names, and never a formula.

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Name

Le Chypre

documented

Fougère Royale (1884) HOUBIGANT, Le Fruit Défendu (1914) LES PARFUMS DE ROSINE - POIRET, Le Chypre (1917) COTY

OSMO-2 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30

the name as the Osmothèque’s collection page writes it; its list has "Chypre (Le) 1° Édition"

confidence A

House

Coty

documented

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

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

the house (the list’s "Marque" column)

confidence A

Year

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

the Osmothèque’s year (the Wikidata inception statement was not used as a second witness: one of its references is a source the house does not use)

confidence A

Family

Chypré

perfumery convention

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

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

the Osmothèque’s family / sub-family (its "Famille" and "Sous famille" columns): a classification, a perfumery convention

confidence B

Perfumers

• 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

Documented materials

none on record: no filed source names its materials, and no composition is given

Significance

not on record

not on record

no filed source states its significance in words the site can use; nothing is claimed

Wikidata

Q104777265

documented

Chypre

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the Wikidata item’s English label; the item the house’s review filed for this record (WD-1), fetched again; its English label is quoted

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)

In history

• The launch of Le Chypre: Coty, 1917

Teaching accords of its family

• 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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this record as data: /data/fragrance/chypre-coty.json · version 3 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence A