Jean Carles

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Name

Jean Carles

documented

"label_en": "Jean Carles"

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

confidence A

Born

1892-01-12

documented

{"property":"P569","label":"date of birth","value":"+1892-01-12T00:00:00Z","precision":11,"precision_means":"day","rank":"normal","references":2,"reference_values":["P143:Q328 ","P248:Q13219454 ","P244:no2024115127","P813:+2025-05-23T00:00:00Z"]}

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

confidence B

Died

1966-07-08

documented

{"property":"P570","label":"date of death","value":"+1966-07-08T00:00:00Z","precision":11,"precision_means":"day","rank":"normal","references":2,"reference_values":["P143:Q328 ","P248:Q13219454 ","P244:no2024115127","P813:+2025-05-23T00:00:00Z"]}

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

confidence B

Place of birth

Grasse

documented

{"property":"P19","label":"place of birth","value":"Q173705","value_label":"Grasse","rank":"normal","references":0}

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

Q1659192

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

• Tabu (Dana, 1931)
  documented

  Tabu DANA 1931 Ambré Ambré Doux Jean Carles

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

  confidence A

• Miss Dior (Dior, 1947)
  documented

  Miss Dior (1947) DIOR 1947 EDT Chypré Vert Paul Vacher Jean Carles

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

  confidence A

Houses

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

  Tabu DANA 1931 Ambré Ambré Doux Jean Carles

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

  confidence A

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

  Miss Dior (1947) DIOR 1947 EDT Chypré Vert Paul Vacher Jean Carles

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

  confidence A

In history

• Miss Dior: Dior, 1947

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/jean-carles.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A