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 "id": "chanel-no-5-launch-1921",
 "type": "HistoricalEvent",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "OSMO-1",
  "WD-1"
 ],
 "title": "Chanel No. 5: Chanel, 1921",
 "date": {
  "value": "1921",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1921,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "OSMO-1",
  "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-1-osmotheque-collection-2015.md:44",
  "quote": "N°5 CHANEL 1921 EXT Floral Aldéhydé Ernest Beaux",
  "confidence": "A",
  "sources": [
   "WD-1"
  ],
  "note": "Wikidata gives the same year (a second witness)"
 },
 "kind": "launch",
 "what": {
  "value": "Chanel launches Chanel No. 5, by Ernest Beaux.",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "OSMO-1",
  "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-1-osmotheque-collection-2015.md:44",
  "quote": "N°5 CHANEL 1921 EXT Floral Aldéhydé Ernest Beaux",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "label": "documented",
 "place": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no place on record for this event"
 },
 "actors": [
  {
   "name": "Ernest Beaux",
   "role": "perfumer",
   "perfumer": "ernest-beaux",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "OSMO-1",
   "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-1-osmotheque-collection-2015.md:44",
   "quote": "N°5 CHANEL 1921 EXT Floral Aldéhydé Ernest Beaux",
   "confidence": "A"
  }
 ],
 "disagreements": [],
 "molecules": [],
 "materials": [],
 "botanicals": [],
 "origins": [],
 "perfumers": [
  "ernest-beaux"
 ],
 "fragrances": [
  "chanel-no-5"
 ],
 "regulations": [],
 "accords": [],
 "media": [],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/history#mega-timeline"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Chanel No. 5 (Chanel, 1921), by Ernest Beaux.",
  "body": [
   "The Osmothèque classes it Floral, Aldéhydé. A review quotes its perfumer, Ernest Beaux, on the future of perfumery lying with chemistry."
  ]
 }
}