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 "license": "https://www.radlerparfums.com/terms",
 "id": "houbigant",
 "type": "House",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "BNF-HOUBIGANT",
  "HOUBIGANT-ABOUT",
  "OSMO-1",
  "WD-1"
 ],
 "name": {
  "value": "Houbigant",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "BNF-HOUBIGANT",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-HOUBIGANT.txt:7",
  "quote": "Houbigant forme internationale",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "record_names": [
  "Houbigant"
 ],
 "kind": "fragrance house",
 "founded": {
  "value": "1775",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1775,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "BNF-HOUBIGANT",
  "sources": [
   "HOUBIGANT-ABOUT"
  ],
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-HOUBIGANT.txt:8",
  "quote": "Naissance : 1775",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "founders": [
  {
   "name": "Jean-François Houbigant",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HOUBIGANT-ABOUT",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HOUBIGANT-ABOUT.txt:8",
   "quote": "a young man, Jean-Francois Houbigant, hung a hand painted sign of a basket of flowers over his little shop",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "places": [
  {
   "place": "Paris, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré",
   "role": "founded in",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HOUBIGANT-ABOUT",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HOUBIGANT-ABOUT.txt:9",
   "quote": "over his little shop in rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "place": "Neuilly-sur-Seine (manufacturing and administration, under Paul Parquet)",
   "role": "works",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HOUBIGANT-ABOUT",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HOUBIGANT-ABOUT.txt:10",
   "quote": "It was under his direction that manufacturing and administration were moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "notable": [
  {
   "what": "by Paul Parquet",
   "fragrance": "fougere-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",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "what": "joint owner of the business from 1880",
   "perfumer": "paul-parquet",
   "year": 1880,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HOUBIGANT-ABOUT",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HOUBIGANT-ABOUT.txt:11",
   "quote": "In 1880 Perfumer Paul Parquet became joint owner of the Houbigant business.",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "lineage": [
  {
   "relation": "acquired by",
   "name": "the family that runs the present company, which took control of the name for fragrances and cosmetics (2005)",
   "year": 2005,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HOUBIGANT-ABOUT",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HOUBIGANT-ABOUT.txt:12",
   "quote": "in 2005 by acquiring the control of the Houbigant name for the fragrances and cosmetics market",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "status": {
  "value": "trading as Parfums Houbigant Paris (its own site)",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HOUBIGANT-ABOUT",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HOUBIGANT-ABOUT.txt:13",
  "quote": "Parfums Houbigant Paris. All Rights Reserved.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Houbigant. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "Fougère Royale: the house dates it to 1882, the Osmothèque to 1884.",
   "sources": [
    "HOUBIGANT-ABOUT",
    "OSMO-1"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "events": [
  "house-houbigant-1775"
 ],
 "links": {},
 "copy": {
  "lede": "A Paris perfumer dated to 1775, when Jean-François Houbigant opened a shop in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré; the house of Paul Parquet’s Fougère Royale, still trading as Parfums Houbigant Paris.",
  "body": [
   "Parquet became a joint owner in 1880 and moved the works to Neuilly-sur-Seine."
  ]
 },
 "source_licence": {
  "derived_from": "sources[] (scripts/validate-entities.mjs recomputes this)",
  "classes": [
   "CC0",
   "no licence stated",
   "open government licence"
  ],
  "commercial_use": "facts and short quotes only",
  "single_source": null,
  "licence": null
 },
 "wikidata_qid": {
  "value": "Q731488",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/wikidata/Q731488.json:2",
  "quote": "\"qid\": \"Q731488\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Houbigant)"
 }
}