The Perfumers: the evidence

The whole register · the page itself

Master Perfumers

• sourced Eau Sauvage (1966) · Diorissimo (1956) · Femme (1944) · Le Parfum de Thérèse (2000) (from the record) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced Shalimar (1925) · Mitsouko (1919) · L’Heure Bleue (1912) · Vol de Nuit (1933) (from the record) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced 5 (1921) · Chanel No. (from the record) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced 22 (1922) · Cuir de Russie (1924) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced Terre d’Hermès (2006) · Un Jardin sur le Nil (2005) · First (1976) · Déclaration (1998) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced Coty brought fine fragrance to a wider public, and his Chypre (1917) gave its name to a family whose name and theme were older (“chypre” compositions existed before his). · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced 1905–1996 · FRANCE · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced Chypre (1917) · L’Origan (1905) · Émeraude (1921) · La Rose Jacqueminot (1904–06) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced Trésor (1990) · Paris (1983) · Eternity (1988) · White Linen (1978) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• unsourced Flowerbomb (2005, a shared credit) · Chanel Gabrielle (2017) · La Pausa (2019) · Boy Chanel (2016)
• sourced Le Male (1995) · Baccarat Rouge 540 (2015) · Grand Soir (2016) · Oud Satin Mood (2017) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced Féminité du Bois (1992) · Ambre Sultan (1993) · Chergui · Muscs Koublaï Khän (1998) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced Bandit (1944) · Fracas (1948) · Vent Vert (1947) · Jolie Madame (1950–53) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced CK One (1994–95) · Acqua di Giò (1996) · Hypnôse (2005) · Omnia (2003) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• sourced Portrait of a Lady (2010) · Carnal Flower (2005) · La Vie est Belle (2012) · Alien (2005) · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• unsourced In-house perfumer at Hermès for 14 years, creator of Terre d’Hermès, Un Jardin sur le Nil, and First (Van Cleef).

Ghost Perfumers

• unsourced The cases the book reports: Green Irish Tweed as Pierre Bourdon’s rejected brief for Lancôme’s Sagamore (1985); Silver Mountain Water as another Bourdon composition; Aventus as the work of Jean-Christophe Hérault, a Bourdon protégé; and, by Bourdon’s own…
• sourced His wife Thérèse, married to him from 1942, worked beside him for decades, and published reviews credit Rochas’s Moustache (1949) to the two of them together (Now Smell This, 2012, for one), while other lists name Edmond alone: how credit was shared at… · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums
• unsourced Her name reached a bottle in 2000, when Frédéric Malle released Le Parfum de Thérèse, a perfume Edmond had composed for her, as Malle tells it.
• unsourced THE POIRET TEMPLATE (1911) — How It Began
• unsourced Fashion designer Paul Poiret launched Les Parfums de Rosine in 1911, an early couturier’s perfume house.

Perfumery Difficulty & Learning

• house interpretation A basic evaluation kit costs a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.
• house interpretation A professional organ costs far more.
• house interpretation Minimum startup: a modest budget for a starter set of materials, scales, pipettes, alcohol, and mouillettes.

Olfactory Training

• perfumery convention Students must learn to identify hundreds of raw materials blind — naturals and synthetics alike.

from the house’s claims register and the records, checked against the pages’ own words when the site was built