Today marks 132 years after the pioneering fashion designer and perfume creator Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was born. Chanel is probably most famous for her modernist and liberating fashion design legacy ...
A new book explains the mysterious origins of Chanel No. 5, which helped make Coco Chanel a household name. Alamy; Corbis via Getty Images Coco Chanel stood in a laboratory in France, sniffing a ...
Coco Chanel intended for No 5 to be ‘a woman’s perfume, with the scent of a woman’; a century on, Collection No 5 introduced high jewellery pieces including a 55.55-carat diamond necklace Just over a ...
At the heart of the collection is a necklace that features a magnificent 55.55-karat emerald diamond at its center. Four bottles of Chanel No. 5 perfume by Gabrielle Chanel from 1921 at the ...
Ask any sample of the population to name a perfume, there’s one that will come to mind. Chanel No. 5. Unless you happen to be in a room of teenage boys, in which case they’ll probably say something ...
You simply cannot get more iconic than Chanel No.5. The fragrance became synonymous with luxury as soon as it appeared in 1921. Originally crafted by Ernest Beaux, the scent is still going strong over ...
The Chanel boutique, at 31 Rue Cambon in the heart of Paris, is a glittering shrine to fashion and fragrance. And that fragrance, of course, is Chanel No. 5, the world's most famous perfume.
Legend has it that one bottle of Chanel perfume sells every 30 seconds globally, and that number gets a substantial boost over the festive period when hapless partners and well-intentioned boyfriends ...