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 "license": "https://www.radlerparfums.com/terms",
 "id": "chiris",
 "type": "House",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "GILD1900",
  "GILD1913",
  "GIV-EXPANSION",
  "GIV-ODYSSEY",
  "POP-CHIRIS",
  "POP-CHIRIS-MH",
  "WD-1"
 ],
 "name": {
  "value": "Antoine Chiris",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "POP-CHIRIS-MH",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/POP-CHIRIS-MH.txt:7",
  "quote": "La maison Antoine Chiris, fondée en 1768, occupe en 1868 l'ancien couvent des Capucins",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "record_names": [
  "Chiris"
 ],
 "kind": "producer of naturals",
 "founded": {
  "value": "1768",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1768,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "POP-CHIRIS-MH",
  "sources": [
   "POP-CHIRIS"
  ],
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/POP-CHIRIS-MH.txt:7",
  "quote": "La maison Antoine Chiris, fondée en 1768",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the second Inventaire notice gives 1768 as the date of the firm’s official history"
 },
 "founders": [
  {
   "name": "Antoine Chiris",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GIV-ODYSSEY",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GIV-ODYSSEY.txt:7",
   "quote": "There, in 1768, Antoine Chiris transformed his passion for perfume from an artisanal business",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "“there” is Grasse, in the sentence before (Givaudan’s own history)"
  }
 ],
 "places": [
  {
   "place": "Grasse, the former Capucins convent (from 1868)",
   "role": "works",
   "origin": "grasse-fr",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "POP-CHIRIS-MH",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/POP-CHIRIS-MH.txt:7",
   "quote": "occupe en 1868 l'ancien couvent des Capucins",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "notable": [
  {
   "what": "a workshop for natural perfumes, inaugurated in 1899",
   "year": 1899,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "POP-CHIRIS-MH",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/POP-CHIRIS-MH.txt:10",
   "quote": "l'usine est agrandie d'un atelier des parfums naturels, inauguré en 1899",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "what": "Léon Chiris bought Massignon’s solvent-extraction factory and patents",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GILD1913",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GILD1913.txt:7",
   "quote": "signon sold his factory and his patents to Leon Chin",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "the sentence begins “Later Mas-signon sold…”; “Chin” is the OCR of Chiris"
  },
  {
   "what": "brought the cultivation of rose geranium to Algeria, with Monk",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GILD1900",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GILD1900.txt:10",
   "quote": "was introduced into Algiers by Chiris and Monk",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "lineage": [
  {
   "relation": "part of",
   "name": "Givaudan, through Quest International (2007)",
   "house": "givaudan",
   "year": 2007,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GIV-EXPANSION",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GIV-EXPANSION.txt:8",
   "quote": "it added the branch of history that links our roots to the Chiris empire",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "status": {
  "value": "closed: the town of Grasse bought the works, and the extraction hall is protected as a historic monument",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "POP-CHIRIS-MH",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/POP-CHIRIS-MH.txt:11",
  "quote": "L'usine a été acquise par la ville après sa fermeture.",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Antoine Chiris. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "links": {},
 "copy": {
  "lede": "A Grasse house of natural raw materials, dated by its own history to 1768, in the former Capucins convent from 1868; its works closed, and its line runs on through Givaudan.",
  "body": [
   "It opened a workshop for natural perfumes in 1899 and, by Gildemeister and Hoffmann’s account, took up rose geranium in Algeria."
  ]
 },
 "source_licence": {
  "derived_from": "sources[] (scripts/validate-entities.mjs recomputes this)",
  "classes": [
   "CC0",
   "no licence stated",
   "open government licence",
   "public domain"
  ],
  "commercial_use": "facts and short quotes only",
  "single_source": null,
  "licence": null
 },
 "wikidata_qid": {
  "value": "Q107262816",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/wikidata/Q107262816.json:2",
  "quote": "\"qid\": \"Q107262816\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Établissements Antoine Chiris)"
 }
}