{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "fougere-royale",
 "type": "Fragrance",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "OSMO-1",
  "ISO-2",
  "KLE-1",
  "OSMO-2"
 ],
 "name": {
  "value": "Fougère Royale",
  "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"
 },
 "house": {
  "value": "Houbigant",
  "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",
  "note": "the house (the list’s \"Marque\" column)"
 },
 "year": {
  "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"
 },
 "perfumers": [
  {
   "perfumer": "paul-parquet",
   "name": "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"
  }
 ],
 "family": {
  "value": "Fougère / Fougère",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "source": "OSMO-1",
  "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-1-osmotheque-collection-2015.md:20",
  "quote": "Fougère Royale HOUBIGANT 1884 Fougère Fougère Paul Parquet",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "the Osmothèque’s family / sub-family (its \"Famille\" and \"Sous famille\" columns): a classification, a perfumery convention"
 },
 "documented_materials": [
  {
   "molecule": "coumarin",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "ISO-2",
   "where": "docs/sources/ISO-2-stepanyuk-kirschning-2019.md:40",
   "quote": "In 1882 'Fougere Royale' was created, a composition of coumarin, oak moss, geranium and bergamot, commercially launched by Houbigant",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": "named by the review as the composition’s materials (\"a composition of coumarin, oak moss, geranium and bergamot\"); no proportions"
  },
  {
   "material": "oakmoss-absolute",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "ISO-2",
   "where": "docs/sources/ISO-2-stepanyuk-kirschning-2019.md:40",
   "quote": "In 1882 'Fougere Royale' was created, a composition of coumarin, oak moss, geranium and bergamot, commercially launched by Houbigant",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": "named by the review as the composition’s materials (\"a composition of coumarin, oak moss, geranium and bergamot\"); no proportions"
  },
  {
   "name": "geranium (oil; no Material record yet)",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "ISO-2",
   "where": "docs/sources/ISO-2-stepanyuk-kirschning-2019.md:40",
   "quote": "In 1882 'Fougere Royale' was created, a composition of coumarin, oak moss, geranium and bergamot, commercially launched by Houbigant",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": "named by the review as the composition’s materials (\"a composition of coumarin, oak moss, geranium and bergamot\"); no proportions"
  },
  {
   "material": "bergamot-essential-oil",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "ISO-2",
   "where": "docs/sources/ISO-2-stepanyuk-kirschning-2019.md:40",
   "quote": "In 1882 'Fougere Royale' was created, a composition of coumarin, oak moss, geranium and bergamot, commercially launched by Houbigant",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": "named by the review as the composition’s materials (\"a composition of coumarin, oak moss, geranium and bergamot\"); no proportions"
  }
 ],
 "significance": {
  "value": "A perfume that lent its name to a whole family of perfumes, the fougères.",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "KLE-1",
  "where": "docs/sources/KLE-1-kleoff-2022-odorants-in-flow.md:39",
  "quote": "It was extensively used in Houbigant: Fougère Royal (1882, … a perfume which has lent its name to a whole family of perfumes (fougère perfumes)",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "trademark_notice": "Fougère Royale is a trademark of its owner. Radler Parfums is not affiliated with it and describes it for history and education only.",
 "wikidata": null,
 "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"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "events": [
  "fougere-royale-launch"
 ],
 "accords": [
  "fougere-teaching-accord"
 ],
 "media": [],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/history#landmarks"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Fougère Royale is a Houbigant fragrance of 1882 or 1884, by Paul Parquet.",
  "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 Fougère / Fougère. 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."
  ]
 }
}