{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "fougere-royale-launch",
 "type": "HistoricalEvent",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "OSMO-1",
  "ISO-2",
  "KLE-1",
  "OSMO-2"
 ],
 "title": "Fougère Royale: Houbigant, 1882 or 1884",
 "date": {
  "value": "1882 or 1884",
  "precision": "range",
  "year": 1882,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "OSMO-1",
  "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-1-osmotheque-collection-2015.md:20",
  "quote": "Fougère Royale HOUBIGANT 1884 Fougère Fougère Paul Parquet",
  "confidence": "A",
  "sources": [
   "ISO-2",
   "KLE-1"
  ],
  "note": "two reviews give 1882 (ISO-2, KLE-1); the Osmothèque’s list and its collection page give 1884 (OSMO-1, OSMO-2): both are shown"
 },
 "kind": "launch",
 "what": {
  "value": "Houbigant launches Fougère Royale, by Paul Parquet.",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "OSMO-1",
  "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-1-osmotheque-collection-2015.md:20",
  "quote": "Fougère Royale HOUBIGANT 1884 Fougère Fougère Paul Parquet",
  "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": "Paul Parquet",
   "role": "perfumer",
   "perfumer": "paul-parquet",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "OSMO-1",
   "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-1-osmotheque-collection-2015.md:20",
   "quote": "Fougère Royale HOUBIGANT 1884 Fougère Fougère Paul Parquet",
   "confidence": "A"
  }
 ],
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "Launch year: 1882 in two reviews (ISO-2, KLE-1); 1884 in the Osmothèque’s list and on its collection page (OSMO-1, OSMO-2).",
   "sources": [
    "ISO-2",
    "KLE-1",
    "OSMO-1",
    "OSMO-2"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "molecules": [
  "coumarin"
 ],
 "materials": [
  "oakmoss-absolute",
  "bergamot-essential-oil"
 ],
 "botanicals": [],
 "origins": [],
 "perfumers": [
  "paul-parquet"
 ],
 "fragrances": [
  "fougere-royale"
 ],
 "regulations": [],
 "accords": [
  "fougere-teaching-accord"
 ],
 "media": [],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/history#mega-timeline"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Fougère Royale (Houbigant, 1882 or 1884), by Paul Parquet.",
  "body": [
   "The two dates on file disagree: two reviews give 1882, the Osmothèque 1884. The composition the reviews name (coumarin, oak moss, geranium, bergamot) is the teaching fougère accord."
  ]
 }
}