Jean Kerléo
Jean Kerléo is a perfumer who worked in-house of Jean Patou and is the also the founder and director of the Osmothèque, a fragrance museum and conservatory in Versailles. Kerleo was born in February 24, 1932 in Brittany, France[1]. At age 22, he began making perfumes for a New York company, Helena Rubenstein[2]. He received the Prix de Parfumeurs de France in 1965, served as the president for the Society of French Perfumers from 1976 to 1979, and was awarded the Prix François COTY in 2001[3]
From 1967 until 1998, Jean Kerleo was the in-house perfumer for the house of Jean Patou, the second in line after Henri Alméras, where he composed the influential perfumes 1000 and Sublime. In 1999, he passed his position of head perfumer of Jean Patou to Jean-Michel Duriez and became the director of the Osmothéque, which he co-founded[4]. In this position, he supervises, researches, and extends the collection of this fragrance museum to encompass and reconstruct more ancient and lost perfumes[1][5].
Creations for Jean Patou
- Lacoste Eau de Sport (1967) (for men; discontinued even before (? or with) Procter & Gamble's direction of the Patou perfumes brand from 2001 on)
- 1000 (1972)
- Patou pour homme (1980) (as the name indicates, for men; discontinued even before (? or with) Procter & Gamble's direction of the Patou perfumes brand, although widely considered being the best men's fragrance ever created)[6]
- Ma Liberte (1987)
- Sublime (1992)
- Voyageur (1995)
- Privé
References
- ^ a b Burr, Chandler (February 24, 2008), "L'Heir Du Temps", T: New York Times Style Magazine, New York Times Company
- ^ Jean Kerleo, Lightyears, Inc., 2005, retrieved 2008-10-04
- ^ Jean Kerleo, Salon Parfums et Aromes, 2005, retrieved 2008-10-04
- ^ Burr, Chandler (2008), The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York, Macmillan, ISBN 9780805080377
- ^ Stone, Susan (November 5, 2006), "Perfume Gallery Preserves, Re-Creates Fragrances", All things considered, National Public Radio
- ^ cf, among others, http://www.basenotes.net/ID26121270.html
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