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.
100 years on, what makes Chanel No. 5 so iconic?
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel came to Paris as the mistress of the textile baron Etienne Balsan in 1909 and set up a millinery boutique under Balsan’s apartment. Chanel was already a phenomenon in French fashion circles by the beginning of the twenties. She had a series of successful boutiques in Paris, Deauville, and Biarritz; she owned a villa in the south of France and drove around in her own blue Rolls Royce.
Coco at 100 - Issuu
Chanel No. 5 is one of the biggest perfumes in all of history. What’s its lure? Is it the name, the legend, the marketing, the juice? Take a look at the illustrious past and present of Chanel No. 5 to understand what people love about Chanel perfumes and what other aspiring best-seller perfumes can learn…
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Hi Dry Downers! Welcome to a new edition of The Six, in which we each pick three perfumes around a theme. This week, we are diving into the wild world of aldehydes. What in the world is an aldehyde? Glad you asked. Fragrantica defines the aldehyde family as “a vast group of components of organic origin reproduced in the lab,” which is basically another way of saying they are kind of magical chemistry reactions that reproduce elements like oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen, but for use in scent. Or from Wikipedia: “
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