Coty

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From 1907 it commissioned perfume bottles from René Lalique.

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Name

Coty

documented

Coty was founded as a fragrance house in Paris, France

COTY-HERITAGE · Coty Inc · read 2026-10-08

confidence B

Kind

fragrance house

house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the grouping on /houses: what the firm was chiefly known for in the sources read

confidence B

Founded

1904 (year)

documented

Naissance : 1904

BNF-COTY · Bibliothèque nationale de France · read 2026-10-08

confidence A

Founders

• François Coty
  documented

  Fondée par : Coty, François (1874-1934)

  BNF-COTY · Bibliothèque nationale de France · read 2026-10-08

  confidence A

Places

• Paris (founded in)
  documented

  Coty was founded as a fragrance house in Paris, France

  COTY-HERITAGE · Coty Inc · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

• New York (head office in 2010) (headquarters)
  documented

  Siège en 2010 : Two Park Avenue, New York, New York 10016

  BNF-COTY · Bibliothèque nationale de France · read 2026-10-08

  confidence A

Documented work

• L'Origan · by François Coty
  documented

  Origan (L') 1° Édition COTY 1905 EXT Ambré Fleuri Épicé François Coty

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

  confidence A

• Le Chypre · by 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

• perfume bottles commissioned from René Lalique, from 1907
  documented

  in 1907 he met the famous perfumer François Coty. He began creating perfume bottles for specific perfumes both for Coty and other perfumers

  MUSEE-LALIQUE-RENE · René Lalique — Musée Lalique (Wingen-sur-Moder) · read 2026-10-08

  confidence A

Today

trading as Coty Inc. (its own site) (checked 2026-10-08)

documented

© 2026 , Coty Inc.

COTY-HERITAGE · Coty Inc · read 2026-10-08

confidence B

Wikidata

Q1104787

documented

"qid": "Q1104787"

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Coty)

confidence A

Where the sources disagree

• The founding year: Coty’s own heritage page places it under the heading 1900; the BnF authority record gives 1904. (COTY-HERITAGE, BNF-COTY)

Sources

1. BNF-COTY · Bibliothèque nationale de France. Authority record ark:/12148/cb12190797m: Coty (Firme). catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12190797m · read 2026-10-08 · Licence Ouverte de l'État (Etalab) — BnF descriptive and authority metadata
2. COTY-HERITAGE · Coty Inc. “Our heritage - Coty”, the company’s own account. www.coty.com/our-heritage · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (all rights reserved) (quoted, not reproduced)
3. MUSEE-LALIQUE-RENE · René Lalique — Musée Lalique (Wingen-sur-Moder). Musée Lalique. www.musee-lalique.com/en/discover/lalique-more-t… · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (quoted, not reproduced)
4. 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; short quotes and single facts only, under fair use (quoted, not reproduced)
5. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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