COTY Flashcards
1
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Background on Francois Coty
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- dubbed the ‘Napoleon of perfume’
- experiments with potential synthetic by giving fragrances sophisticated accords
2
Q
What perfume did coty create
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L’Origan ( 1905)
Chypre ( 1917)
3
Q
L’Origan
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- first modern perfume
- started the trend for intensely spicy florals.
4
Q
Chypre
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- Coty’s big success
- created in 1917
- modern perfume and the birth of new directions in the art of perfumery
- Today, many perfumers build their fragrances based on the olfactory construction of Chypre
- made successful by women who made progress towards new political or economic independences
