Le Chypre: Coty, 1917

The Osmothèque lists it in the chypre family. The same list has earlier chypres, so the record does not call it the start of the family; the teaching chypre accord shows the structure.

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The record

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Date

1917 (year)

documented

Chypre (Le) 1° Édition COTY 1917 EXT Chypré François Coty

OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30
OSMO-2 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30
WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), the items listed in the house’s records · read 2026-09-30

Wikidata gives the same year (a second witness)

confidence A

Label

documented (a source states it)

house label

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

one of the four labels of the Reconstruction Lab (A §6.4), chosen from what the cited source itself says

confidence B

Kind

launch

house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the house’s grouping of events for the timeline

confidence B

What happened

Coty launches Le Chypre, by François Coty.

documented

Chypre (Le) 1° Édition COTY 1917 EXT Chypré François Coty

OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Place

not on record

not on record

no place on record for this event

People

• François Coty (perfumer)
  documented

  Chypre (Le) 1° Édition COTY 1917 EXT Chypré François Coty

  OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30

  confidence A

Where the sources disagree

• Not the earliest chypre on record: the same Osmothèque list has a "Chypre de Paris" (Guerlain, 1909) and an eighteenth-century "Poudre de Chypre"; the site’s own page says Coty "invented the Chypre family", which this record does not repeat. (OSMO-1)

Perfumers

• François Coty

Fragrances

• Le Chypre

Teaching accords

• The chypre skeleton

Sources

1. OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums. Collection Osmothèque, juin 2015 (PDF list: name, house, launch year, concentration, family, sub-family, perfumers). www.osmotheque.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Col… · read 2026-09-30 · no reuse licence stated; quoted row by row, not filed
2. OSMO-2 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums. La collection (web page). www.osmotheque.fr/la-collection/ · read 2026-09-30 · no reuse licence stated; quoted, not filed
3. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), the items listed in the house’s records; extracts filed in the house’s records, read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 (Wikidata structured data); the extracts are filed

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this record as data: /data/event/chypre-coty-launch-1917.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A