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. At age 22, he began making perfumes for a New York company, Helena Rubenstein. 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

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. In this position, he supervises, researches, and extends the collection of this fragrance museum to encompass and reconstruct more ancient and lost perfumes.

Works

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

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