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 "id": "coty",
 "type": "House",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "BNF-COTY",
  "COTY-HERITAGE",
  "MUSEE-LALIQUE-RENE",
  "OSMO-1",
  "WD-1"
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  "value": "Coty",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "COTY-HERITAGE",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/COTY-HERITAGE.txt:7",
  "quote": "Coty was founded as a fragrance house in Paris, France",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
 },
 "record_names": [
  "Coty"
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 "kind": "fragrance house",
 "founded": {
  "value": "1904",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1904,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "BNF-COTY",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-COTY.txt:7",
  "quote": "Naissance : 1904",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "founders": [
  {
   "name": "François Coty (1874–1934)",
   "perfumer": "francois-coty",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "BNF-COTY",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-COTY.txt:8",
   "quote": "Fondée par : Coty, François (1874-1934)",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
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 "places": [
  {
   "place": "Paris",
   "role": "founded in",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "COTY-HERITAGE",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/COTY-HERITAGE.txt:7",
   "quote": "Coty was founded as a fragrance house in Paris, France",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "place": "New York (head office in 2010)",
   "role": "headquarters",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "BNF-COTY",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-COTY.txt:9",
   "quote": "Siège en 2010 : Two Park Avenue, New York, New York 10016",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
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 "notable": [
  {
   "what": "by François Coty",
   "fragrance": "lorigan",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "OSMO-1",
   "where": "docs/sources/OSMO-1-osmotheque-collection-2015.md:26",
   "quote": "Origan (L') 1° Édition COTY 1905 EXT Ambré Fleuri Épicé François Coty",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "what": "by François Coty",
   "fragrance": "chypre-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": null
  },
  {
   "what": "perfume bottles commissioned from René Lalique, from 1907",
   "year": 1907,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "MUSEE-LALIQUE-RENE",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/MUSEE-LALIQUE-RENE.txt:7",
   "quote": "in 1907 he met the famous perfumer François Coty. He began creating perfume bottles for specific perfumes both for Coty and other perfumers",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "status": {
  "value": "trading as Coty Inc. (its own site)",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "COTY-HERITAGE",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/COTY-HERITAGE.txt:8",
  "quote": "© 2026 , Coty Inc.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Coty. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "The founding year: Coty’s own heritage page places it under the heading 1900; the BnF authority record gives 1904.",
   "sources": [
    "COTY-HERITAGE",
    "BNF-COTY"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "links": {},
 "copy": {
  "lede": "A Paris perfume house founded by François Coty, dated to 1904 by the BnF; the house of L’Origan and Le Chypre, trading today as Coty Inc.",
  "body": [
   "From 1907 it commissioned perfume bottles from René Lalique."
  ]
 },
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   "no licence stated",
   "open government licence"
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  "commercial_use": "facts and short quotes only",
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  "value": "Q1104787",
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  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/wikidata/Q1104787.json:2",
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  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Coty)"
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