ChypreJacqueline Couturier
Gender parity has long been a subject of debate. Nevertheless, through perseverance, women are today considered, rightly so, as equals to men. As a result, there are fewer and fewer professions from which women are absent. As an example, perfumery was, for a very long time, a heavily male-dominated field. Today, more and more women are becoming noses. Yet this is fairly recent. Until the 70s, perfumery seemed synonymous with masculinity. Even so, this never discouraged Jacqueline Couturier, one of the rare perfumers of her time.
The first part of Jacqueline Couturier's career
Although she was a perfumer in her own right, this statement should nevertheless be qualified. Indeed, Jacqueline Couturier did not work alone. She became known for the company she founded with her husband, Jean Couturier. Together, they owned an eponymous house. The story of this house began in the 1960s. Indeed, during that period, Jean Couturier worked alongside Yves Saint-Laurent. He notably created the perfumes Y and Rive Gauche. His wife, Jacqueline Couturier, also worked as a nose, in the Grasse region. It must be said that Jacqueline Couturier had always been immersed in the world of scents. She came from a family of perfumers and had, among her close circle, particularly well-known names in this field, such as Jean Carles for instance. While Jacqueline Couturier was already composing perfumes in the 60s, she never revealed her identity. To come into the open, she waited until she had her own house.
The opening of the house Jean Couturier
It was in 1972 that Jean and Jacqueline Couturier decided to launch their own perfume house. From then on, Jacqueline Couturier agreed to reveal her name and sign her compositions. Thus, barely a year later, she created the perfume Coriandre. It must be said that this fragrance carried symbolic weight. This juice notably contained a scent very close to that of her mother. In other words, it is a little of her own story that Jacqueline Couturier delivered in this composition. It remains the most famous fragrance of Jacqueline Couturier's entire career. Nevertheless, her house created other great fragrances, though more often carried by her husband's name. Thus, Jacqueline Couturier's house created, among others, Eau Fraiche in 1974, Monsieur Couturier in 1976, and Keora in 1983. Even so, the perfume Corianne seems to possess a certain timelessness that the others lack. As such, it has endured through the years, being reissued in 1996 as L'Eau de Coriandre.
In other words, Jacqueline Couturier seems to have left a lasting mark on the history of perfumery. Moreover, alongside Germaine Cellier, one of the rare female perfume creators of that same era, Jacqueline Couturier greatly contributed to establishing the emancipation of women in this field.
Creations by Jacqueline Couturier
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