Eau de Cologne Impériale: Guerlain, 1853

A dated launch: the year, the house and the perfumer are the conservatory’s; the fragrance record holds the rest of what is documented.

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The record

Each field carries its evidence: open a chip for the source, the quoted words and the confidence. A field with nothing behind it says so and stays empty.

Date

1853 (year)

documented

Eau De Cologne Impériale GUERLAIN 1853 EDC Hespéridé Pierre-François-Pascal

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

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

Guerlain launches Eau de Cologne Impériale, by Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain.

documented

Eau De Cologne Impériale GUERLAIN 1853 EDC Hespéridé Pierre-François-Pascal

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

• Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain (perfumer)
  documented

  Eau De Cologne Impériale GUERLAIN 1853 EDC Hespéridé Pierre-François-Pascal

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

  confidence A

Perfumers

• Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain

Fragrances

• Eau de Cologne Impériale

Teaching accords

• A cologne

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

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this record as data: /data/event/eau-de-cologne-imperiale-1853.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A