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 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
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  "value": "Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella",
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  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SMN-STORY.txt:7",
  "quote": "Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella became its legal commerc",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
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 "kind": "fragrance house",
 "founded": {
  "value": "15 October 1612",
  "precision": "day",
  "year": 1612,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "SMN-STORY",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SMN-STORY.txt:8",
  "quote": "On 15 October 1612, a council of the convent voted to establish a public pharmacy.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "as a public pharmacy; the Officina counts its story from 1221"
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 "founders": [
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   "name": "the Dominican friars of Santa Maria Novella",
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   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SMN-STORY.txt:8",
   "quote": "a council of the convent voted to establish a public pharmacy",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
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 "places": [
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   "place": "Florence, Via della Scala 16",
   "role": "works",
   "origin": "florence-it",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "SMN-SCALA",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SMN-SCALA.txt:7",
   "quote": "The building has operated as a public pharmacy since 15 October 1612",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
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  {
   "what": "Acqua di Rose, among the scented waters whose sale is documented in 1381",
   "year": 1381,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "SMN-STORY",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SMN-STORY.txt:10",
   "quote": "the documented sale of acque profumate, among them Acqua di Rose",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
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 "lineage": [
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   "relation": "became",
   "name": "a secular private company (1871), after the suppression of the religious orders",
   "year": 1871,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "SMN-ABOUT",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SMN-ABOUT.txt:7",
   "quote": "Formally registered as a secular private company following the suppression of religious orders.",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
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 "status": {
  "value": "a joint-stock company under the coordination and control of Italmobiliare S.p.A., by its own corporate data",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "SMN-CORPORATE",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SMN-CORPORATE.txt:7",
  "quote": "Company under coordination and control of Italmobiliare S.p.A.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "disagreements": [
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   "text": "Its date: the Officina counts its continuity from 1221, when Dominican friars took the site; it opened as a public pharmacy on 15 October 1612.",
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   ]
  }
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  "lede": "The pharmacy of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, opened to the public on 15 October 1612 and a private company since 1871; it still works in the Via della Scala.",
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   "By its own account the friars’ scented waters, among them a rose water, were sold as early as 1381."
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