Origins & milestones

Chypre 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. AntiquityCyprus cosmetics

   The name chypre / Cyprus: moss and resin memories, not yet Coty math.

2. 1917Coty Chypre

   François Coty states the bergamot–labdanum–oakmoss chord.

3. 1919Mitsouko

   Jacques Guerlain adds peach; the most cited child.

4. 1944Femme

   Roudnitska’s ripe chypre for Rochas.

5. 1947Miss Dior

   Paul Vacher / Jean Carles: floral chypre for the New Look.

6. 1959Cabochard

   Grès / Cellier: leathery chypre.

7. 1971Aromatics Elixir

   Clinique / Bernard Chant: mossy-camomile power chypre.

8. 1977Knowing / others

   Lauder chypres as American volume.

9. IFRA 2000sOakmoss limits

   Atranol/chloroatranol cuts; Evernyl and reconstructions.

10. 2010sNiche restages

    Vintage-minded houses rebuild 1917 geometry under new law.

The eras

• Cyprus idea — A name and a cosmetic paste, not a pyramid textbook.
• Coty–Guerlain — The structure is stated and immediately mastered.
• Fashion chypres — Dior, Grès, Clinique — moss as chic and power.
• Retreat — Orientals and aquatics take the floor.
• IFRA chypre — The family lives as a problem of moss substitutes.

Milestones

• Coty Chypre, 1917 — The family gets a name and a chord.
• Mitsouko, 1919 — Fruit-moss as a world masterpiece.
• IFRA oakmoss caps — The structure’s legal crisis.

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

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