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Le Chypre

Le Chypre is a Coty fragrance of 1917, by François Coty.

Trademark Le Chypre is a trademark of its owner. Radler Parfums is not affiliated with it and describes it for history and education only.

The house, the year, the perfumer and the family are the Osmothèque’s, with a second source named where one agrees or disagrees; it classes it Chypré. This record keeps to documented facts: the year, the house, the perfumer and the family, each with its source; no composition is given beyond what a filed source names, and never a formula.

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Name
Le Chypre
documented

Fougère Royale (1884) HOUBIGANT, Le Fruit Défendu (1914) LES PARFUMS DE ROSINE - POIRET, Le Chypre (1917) COTY

OSMO-2 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30

the name as the Osmothèque’s collection page writes it; its list has "Chypre (Le) 1° Édition"

confidence A

House
Coty
documented

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

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

the house (the list’s "Marque" column)

confidence A

Year
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

Family
Chypré
perfumery convention

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

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

the Osmothèque’s family / sub-family (its "Famille" and "Sous famille" columns): a classification, a perfumery convention

confidence B

Perfumers
  • 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

Documented materials
none on record: no filed source names its materials, and no composition is given
Significance
not on record
not on record

no filed source states its significance in words the site can use; nothing is claimed

Wikidata
Q104777265
identifier

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

the Wikidata item this record reads from or compares with (CC0)

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)
In history
Teaching accords of its family

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

These records are published under CC BY 4.0.

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