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, FranceCitation |first=Chandler |last=Burr |title=L'Heir Du Temps |year=2008 |date=February 24 2008 |journal=T: New York Times Style Magazine| publisher=New York Times Company] . At age 22, he began making perfumes for a New York company, Helena RubensteinCitation |title = Jean Kerleo |publisher=Lightyears, Inc.|date=2005 |url=http://www.perfumeprojects.com/museum/perfumers/Jean_Kerleo.php |accessdate=Oct 04 2008] . 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 2001Citation |title = Jean Kerleo |publisher=Salon Parfums et Aromes|date=2005 |url=http://www.parfums-et-aromes.com/4899/36078.html |accessdate=Oct 04 2008]

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-foundedCitation |first=Chandler |last=Burr |title=The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York |year=2008 |publisher=Macmillan |ISBN=9780805080377] . In this position, he supervises, researches, and extends the collection of this fragrance museum to encompass and reconstruct more ancient and lost perfumesCitation |first=Susan |last=Stone |title=Perfume Gallery Preserves, Re-Creates Fragrances |date = November 5, 2006 |journal=All things considered |publisher=National Public Radio] .

Works

*1000, (1972) Jean Patou
*Ma Liberte, (1987) Jean Patou
*Prive, Jean Patou
*Sublime, (1992) Jean Patou
*Voyageur, Jean Patou

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