Origins & milestones

Aldehydic did not arrive as one bottle. The timeline below keeps Grasse, Guerlain, Chanel, Nahéma and IFRA as proper names, not metaphors.

Read the years as a map of trade and reformulation, not as a ranking of beauty.

Timeline

1. c. 1903–12Early aldehydes

   Quelques Fleurs and others use aldehydes as a lift, not a flood.

2. 1921Chanel No. 5

   Beaux’s legend of an overdose; 5 May launch stories; the monument.

3. 1922No. 22

   Chanel’s brighter aldehyde sister.

4. 1927Arpège

   Lanvin / André Fraysse: aldehyde floral as a musical bottle.

5. 1929Liu

   Guerlain’s aldehyde floral, often read as a No. 5 answer.

6. 1978White Linen

   Lauder / Grojsman: American aldehydic cleanliness.

7. 1950s–80sNo. 5 as a fact

   Monroe’s quote, Warhol’s bottle, the century’s shorthand for perfume.

8. 1990s–nowPolge years

   Jacques then Olivier Polge restage No. 5 under IFRA and taste.

9. 2010sNiche aldehydes

   Some indies revive C-12 snow against gourmand aisles.

10. 2000sOsmothèque extras

    Teaching the difference between soap and Beaux’s architecture.

The eras

• Aldehyde as a tool — A lift in mixed florals.
• Beaux modernism — No. 5, No. 22, Arpège, Liu.
• Icon years — The bottle becomes pop and diplomacy.
• American linen — White Linen and clean aldehydes.
• Restage and revival — IFRA, Polge, and anti-gourmand snow.

Milestones

• Chanel No. 5, 1921 — The family becomes a world fact.
• Arpège, 1927 — Proves the structure travels to another house.
• White Linen, 1978 — Aldehydes as American daylight, not only Paris night.

Aldehydic keeps moving; the other six chapters say what one date cannot.

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