Ernest Beaux

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Name

Ernest Beaux

documented

"label_en": "Ernest Beaux"

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

confidence A

Born

1881-11-25

documented

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

confidence B

Died

1961-06-09

documented

{"property":"P570","label":"date of death","value":"+1961-06-09T00:00:00Z","precision":11,"precision_means":"day","rank":"normal","references":1,"reference_values":["P143:Q328 "]}

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

confidence B

Place of birth

Moscow

documented

{"property":"P19","label":"place of birth","value":"Q649","value_label":"Moscow","rank":"normal","references":1,"reference_values":["P143:Q328 "]}

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

confidence B

Training

not on record

not on record

no training is recorded here: no filed source was read for it

Wikidata

Q1356245

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

Documented works

• Chanel No. 5 (Chanel, 1921)
  documented

  N°5 CHANEL 1921 EXT Floral Aldéhydé Ernest Beaux

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

  confidence A

Houses

• Chanel (the house of the documented work(s), as the Osmothèque lists it)
  documented

  N°5 CHANEL 1921 EXT Floral Aldéhydé Ernest Beaux

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

  confidence A

In history

• Chanel No. 5: Chanel, 1921

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
2. 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

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this record as data: /data/perfumer/ernest-beaux.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A