Narcisse Noir: Caron, 1912 (or 1911)

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

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Date

1912 (year)

documented

Narcisse Noir CARON 1912 EXT Floral Solinote Narcisse Ernest Daltroff

OSMO-1 · 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

the Osmothèque gives 1912; Wikidata’s publication date is 1911: both are recorded, the conservatory’s is shown

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

Caron launches Narcisse Noir, by Ernest Daltroff.

documented

Narcisse Noir CARON 1912 EXT Floral Solinote Narcisse Ernest Daltroff

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

• Ernest Daltroff (perfumer)
  documented

  Narcisse Noir CARON 1912 EXT Floral Solinote Narcisse Ernest Daltroff

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

  confidence A

Where the sources disagree

• Launch year: 1912 in the Osmothèque’s list (OSMO-1); 1911 as Wikidata’s publication date (WD-1, the house’s records:13). (OSMO-1, WD-1)

Perfumers

• Ernest Daltroff

Fragrances

• Narcisse Noir

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. 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

These records are published under CC BY 4.0.

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