Coco Chanel revolutionised the way women smell with her fragrance Chanel No 5 - worn by Marilyn Monroe, the perfume was created 90 years ago this month.
How Chanel No. 5 Became The World's Most Popular Fragrance
No5 Culture Chanel Exhibition Palais De Tokyo Paris
This Affordable Perfume Is A Perfect Dupe For Chanel No. 5
What it takes to create something so timeless like Chanel No. 5? Is it marketing, or is the ingenuity of the perfumer what has kept this perfume on the top of the most expensive luxury goods for 95 years?
The Story Behind The Most Expensive Chanel No. 5 - High Style Life
Chanel No. 5 (1921) - Yesterday's Perfume
Celebrity perfume is dead. Long live celebrity perfume.
A Cultural Autopsy of the Celebrity Perfume - by Miccaeli
Chanel Nº5 undoubtedly one the most coveted luxury fragrances of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Discover now the story behind this vintage icon
Chanel Nº5: Discover The Story Behind This Vintage Icon
While Coco’s understated elegance lacks the fireworks of Dior or McQueen, the exhibition is carried by the energy of a formidable, if not exactly likable, character
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Mystery novels offer a more nuanced perspective in which perfumes are one intriguing tool in the box of dark communication strategies. Beyond seduction, by “dark communication” I mean that a perfume can create avenues for deception, subterfuge, transgression, deviance and so on. Napoleon is said to have gone through more than 100ml of his lime […]
How Perfume Becomes an Evocative Clue for Mystery Writers
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