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Joséphine Catapano

Joséphine Catapano (1918–2012) was a perfumer; the work on record here is Cinnabar.

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Name
Joséphine Catapano
documented

"label_en": "Joséphine Catapano"

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

confidence A

Born
1918-12-29
documented

{"property":"P569","label":"date of birth","value":"+1918-12-29T00:00:00Z","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

Died
2012-05-14
documented

{"property":"P570","label":"date of death","value":"+2012-05-14T00:00:00Z","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
not on record
not on record

no place of birth in a filed source

Training
not on record
not on record

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

Wikidata
Q57725766
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
  • Cinnabar (Estée Lauder, 1978)
    documented

    Cinnabar ESTEE LAUDER 1978 Ambré Semi-Ambré-Fleuri Joséphine Catapano Bernard Chant

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

    confidence A

Houses
  • Estée Lauder (the house of the documented work(s), as the Osmothèque lists it)
    documented

    Cinnabar ESTEE LAUDER 1978 Ambré Semi-Ambré-Fleuri Joséphine Catapano Bernard Chant

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

    confidence A

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/josephine-catapano.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A