CHANEL
The now and forever fragrance. Worldly. Sophisticated. Surprisingly sexy. N°5 is Coco Chanels legendary vision of "a womans fragrance that smells like Woman."
You can not forget the famous commercial for Chanel No5 back in the 80s when a fit man dives into the swimming pool and dissapears just as he exits poolside near a woman in a bathing suit. You may be able to find that commercial on Youtube. The No 5 Chanel Paris Parfum has come out with a new marketing film called Train de nuit or night train.
Chanel was once quoted as saying "I want to give women an artificial perfume ". When the response was disbelief Chanel responded "Yes I really do mean artificial like a dress something that has been made. I do not want any rose or lily of the valley I want a perfume that is a composition."
For the first time a perfume was developed with large quantities of aldehydes and synthetic substances to lighten the heady flower notes and to raise their sensuality toward refined seduction. Chanel history tells that Ernest Beaux found the olfactory inspiration for Number 5 around 1920 on his return from a military campaign that had taken him inside the Arctic Circle. During the midnight sun the lakes and the rivers give off a very special fresh fragrance which the perfumer was determined to recreate. In an interview given at the airport in Japan Marilyn Monroe told a reporter that all she wore in bed was a few drops of Coco Chanel N°5. That is the 1960s folks. Chanel has been a favorite perfume for a long time. The anecdote played a large part in sustaining the legendary reputation of the fragrance. N°5 is immortalized as an icon of the 20th century in a series of nine silkscreen prints by Andy Warhol. In 1959 the packaging secured a place for N°5 in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Chanel Fragrance Scents Aldehydic floral: A bouquet of abstract flowers with an indefinable femininity. Launches with bewitching notes of Ylang-Ylang and Neroli then unfolds with Grasse Jasmine and May Rose. Sandalwood and Vanilla round out the fabled composition with unforgettable woody notes.