Guerlain founded, 1828

The date and the founder are Wikidata’s. Three of the family’s perfumers are on record here: Pierre-François-Pascal, Aimé and Jacques Guerlain.

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Date

1828 (year)

documented

{"property":"P571","label":"inception","value":"+1828-01-01T00:00:00Z","precision":9,"precision_means":"year","rank":"normal","references":1,"reference_values":["P143:Q48183 "]}

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), the items listed in the house’s records · read 2026-09-30

confidence B

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

house

house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the house’s grouping of events for the timeline

confidence B

What happened

Guerlain, the house, dated to 1828, was founded by Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain.

documented

{"property":"P112","label":"founded by","value":"Q3903444","value_label":"Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain","rank":"normal","references":1,"reference_values":["P143:Q11920 ","P4656:https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guerlain&oldid=97233422"]}

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), the items listed in the house’s records · read 2026-09-30

confidence B

Place

not on record

not on record

no place on record for this event

People

• Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain (founder)
  documented

  {"property":"P112","label":"founded by","value":"Q3903444","value_label":"Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain","rank":"normal","references":1,"reference_values":["P143:Q11920 ","P4656:https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guerlain&oldid=97233422"]}

  WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), the items listed in the house’s records · read 2026-09-30

  confidence B

Perfumers

• Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain

Sources

1. 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/house-guerlain-1828.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence B