François Coty’s Chypre, Paul Parquet’s Fougère Royale, and Aimé Guerlain's Jicky are three of the many representations at an archive in Versailles, France that was founded in 1990 to preserve what?
Osmothèque reformulated, including François Coty’s "Chypre" (Coty), Paul Parquet’s "Fougère Royale" (Houbigant) and Aimé Guerlain's "Jicky" (Guerlain) as well as numerous personalized fragrances worn by historical figures such as Elizabeth of Poland, Napoleon and Eugénie de Montijo. Since 2008, Patricia de Nicolaï has served as the institution’s president. The founding of the world’s first international scent archive was initially proposed to the Société Française des Parfumeurs in 1976 by Jean Kerléo, then head perfumer at Jean Patou, in an effort to formally record and preserve the history of perfumery. Kerléo envisioned reconstituting various discontinued classics according to their original formulae, working
Jacques Guerlain its ingredients "Chypre de Paris" (1909) and "Mitsouko". While generally methodical, Guerlain could sometimes prove impulsive; a popular rumour suggests that he emptied a sample of ethylvanillin, provided by Justin Dupont, into a flask of his uncle's "Jicky" (1889), thereby striking upon the initial concept for "Shalimar". Guerlain's faithful muse, it is said, was his wife, Andrée, affectionately nicknamed Lili. Guerlain spoke little of his work and creative process; indeed he was painfully taciturn. When pressed for words of wisdom, Guerlain was known to reply simply: In contrast to François Coty, Ernest Daltroff or Paul Parquet, autodidactic perfumers who revolutionised