{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "chypre-coty",
 "type": "Fragrance",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "OSMO-1",
  "OSMO-2",
  "WD-1"
 ],
 "name": {
  "value": "Le Chypre",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "OSMO-2",
  "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-2-osmotheque-la-collection.md:20",
  "quote": "Fougère Royale (1884) HOUBIGANT, Le Fruit Défendu (1914) LES PARFUMS DE ROSINE - POIRET, Le Chypre (1917) COTY",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the name as the Osmothèque’s collection page writes it; its list has \"Chypre (Le) 1° Édition\""
 },
 "house": {
  "value": "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",
  "note": "the house (the list’s \"Marque\" column)"
 },
 "year": {
  "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)"
 },
 "perfumers": [
  {
   "perfumer": "francois-coty",
   "name": "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"
  }
 ],
 "family": {
  "value": "Chypré",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "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": "B",
  "note": "the Osmothèque’s family / sub-family (its \"Famille\" and \"Sous famille\" columns): a classification, a perfumery convention"
 },
 "documented_materials": [],
 "significance": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no filed source states its significance in words the site can use; nothing is claimed"
 },
 "trademark_notice": "Le Chypre is a trademark of its owner. Radler Parfums is not affiliated with it and describes it for history and education only.",
 "wikidata": "Q104777265",
 "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"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "events": [
  "chypre-coty-launch-1917"
 ],
 "accords": [
  "chypre-teaching-accord"
 ],
 "media": [],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/history#landmarks"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Le Chypre is a Coty fragrance of 1917, by François Coty.",
  "body": [
   "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."
  ]
 }
}