Jean Kerléo is a perfumer

Perfumer

A perfumer is a term used for an expert on creating perfume compositions, sometimes referred to affectionately as a Nose due to their fine sense of smell and skill in producing olfactory compositions...

 who worked in-house of Jean Patou

Jean Patou

- Early life :Patou was born in Normandy, France in 1880. Patou's family's business was tanning and furs. Patou worked with his uncle in Normandy, then moved to Paris in 1910, intent on becoming a couturier.-1910s - World War I and later:...

 and is the also the founder and director of the Osmothèque

Osmothèque

The Osmothèque is a perfume museum and conservatory in Versailles located near ISIPCA as a repository and conservatory for the formulae of perfumes. It was founded in 1988 by Jean Kerléo and several perfumers with the goal of reconstructing the formula for perfumes that have been lost and preserve...

, a fragrance museum and conservatory in Versailles

Versailles

Versailles , a city renowned for its château, the Palace of Versailles, was the de facto capital of the kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789. It is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and remains an important administrative and judicial centre...

. Kerleo was born on February 24, 1932 in Brittany, France

France

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

New York

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 company, Helena Rubenstein. He received the Prix des 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

Henri Alméras

Henri Alméras 1892-1965 was a French perfumer. He was best known for creating many perfumes for Patou, including Amour Amour and Joy.-List of creations for Jean Patou:...

, 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 Osmothèque, 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.

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)
• Ma Liberté (1987)
• Sublime (1992)
• Voyageur (1995)
• Privé