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 "id": "chanel",
 "type": "House",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "BNF-CHANEL",
  "CHANEL-1910",
  "CHANEL-1920",
  "LOC-CHANEL",
  "REG-CHANEL-PB",
  "WD-1"
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 "name": {
  "value": "Chanel",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "BNF-CHANEL",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-CHANEL.txt:7",
  "quote": "Maison de couture fondée par Coco Chanel rue Cambon, Paris 1er.",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "record_names": [
  "Chanel"
 ],
 "kind": "fragrance house",
 "founded": {
  "value": "1910",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1910,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "CHANEL-1910",
  "sources": [
   "LOC-CHANEL"
  ],
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/CHANEL-1910.txt:7",
  "quote": "opens a hat boutique at 21 rue Cambon under the name Chanel Modes",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the house’s timeline, under the heading 1910"
 },
 "founders": [
  {
   "name": "Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "BNF-CHANEL",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-CHANEL.txt:7",
   "quote": "Maison de couture fondée par Coco Chanel rue Cambon, Paris 1er.",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "places": [
  {
   "place": "Paris, 21 rue Cambon",
   "role": "founded in",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "CHANEL-1910",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/CHANEL-1910.txt:7",
   "quote": "opens a hat boutique at 21 rue Cambon",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "notable": [
  {
   "what": "by Ernest Beaux, launched in 1921",
   "fragrance": "chanel-no-5",
   "year": 1921,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "CHANEL-1920",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/CHANEL-1920.txt:7",
   "quote": "1921 LAUNCH OF CHANEL N°5 PERFUME",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "what": "made with Gabrielle Chanel",
   "perfumer": "ernest-beaux",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "CHANEL-1920",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/CHANEL-1920.txt:8",
   "quote": "was born out of Gabrielle Chanel’s partnership with perfumer Ernest Beaux",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "lineage": [
  {
   "relation": "became",
   "name": "the Société des Parfums Chanel, created in 1924 for its perfumes and cosmetics",
   "year": 1924,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "CHANEL-1920",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/CHANEL-1920.txt:9",
   "quote": "company is created in 1924 to produce and sell perfumes and cosmetics",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "relation": "became",
   "name": "Chanel SA (1954), when the perfume company bought the couture house",
   "year": 1954,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "BNF-CHANEL",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-CHANEL.txt:8",
   "quote": "Chanel SA est créé en 1954 suite au rachat de la maison de couture Chanel par les Parfums Chanel",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "status": {
  "value": "its perfumes and beauty company is active, with its head office at Neuilly-sur-Seine (French register)",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "REG-CHANEL-PB",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/REG-CHANEL-PB.txt:7",
  "quote": "etat_administratif: A",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Chanel. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "links": {},
 "copy": {
  "lede": "The Paris house Gabrielle Chanel began as a hat boutique at 21 rue Cambon in 1910; its perfume company was formed in 1924, three years after N°5, and bought the couture house in 1954.",
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  "value": "Q218115",
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  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/wikidata/Q218115.json:2",
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  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Chanel)"
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