{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "chypre-coty-launch-1917",
 "type": "HistoricalEvent",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "OSMO-1",
  "OSMO-2",
  "WD-1"
 ],
 "title": "Le Chypre: Coty, 1917",
 "date": {
  "value": "1917",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1917,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "OSMO-1",
  "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-1-osmotheque-collection-2015.md:35",
  "quote": "Chypre (Le) 1° Édition COTY 1917 EXT Chypré François Coty",
  "confidence": "A",
  "sources": [
   "OSMO-2",
   "WD-1"
  ],
  "note": "Wikidata gives the same year (a second witness)"
 },
 "kind": "launch",
 "what": {
  "value": "Coty launches Le Chypre, by François Coty.",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "OSMO-1",
  "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-1-osmotheque-collection-2015.md:35",
  "quote": "Chypre (Le) 1° Édition COTY 1917 EXT Chypré François Coty",
  "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": "François Coty",
   "role": "perfumer",
   "perfumer": "francois-coty",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "OSMO-1",
   "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-1-osmotheque-collection-2015.md:35",
   "quote": "Chypre (Le) 1° Édition COTY 1917 EXT Chypré François Coty",
   "confidence": "A"
  }
 ],
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "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.",
   "sources": [
    "OSMO-1"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "molecules": [],
 "materials": [],
 "botanicals": [],
 "origins": [],
 "perfumers": [
  "francois-coty"
 ],
 "fragrances": [
  "chypre-coty"
 ],
 "regulations": [],
 "accords": [
  "chypre-teaching-accord"
 ],
 "media": [],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/history#mega-timeline"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Le Chypre (Coty, 1917), by François Coty.",
  "body": [
   "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."
  ]
 }
}