François Coty

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Name

François Coty

documented

"label_en": "François Coty"

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

confidence A

Born

1874-05-03

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

1934-07-25

documented

{"property":"P570","label":"date of death","value":"+1934-07-25T00:00:00Z","precision":11,"precision_means":"day","rank":"normal","references":3,"reference_values":["P248:Q19938912 ","P268:12241032g","P813:+2015-10-10T00:00:00Z","P248:Q98769076 ","P8094:spoturnoj","P1810:François Coty"]}

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

confidence B

Place of birth

Ajaccio

documented

{"property":"P19","label":"place of birth","value":"Q40104","value_label":"Ajaccio","rank":"normal","references":1,"reference_values":["P248:Q193563 "]}

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

confidence B

Training

not on record

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

Wikidata

Q1332383

identifier

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

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confidence A

Documented works

• L'Origan (Coty, 1905)
  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 (Coty, 1917)
  documented

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

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

  confidence A

Houses

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

In history

• Le Chypre: Coty, 1917
• L'Origan: Coty, 1905

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/francois-coty.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A