Well, this week it has to be Chanel No. 5. I know it's a classic, but it's not one of those ho-hum classics, this is a hot classic. It's been on the market since the 1920s.
By the way, it wasn't designed by Coco Chanel. She hired a perfumist by the name of Ernst Breaux to create some fragrances for her. Although years later she would say she named the perfume for her favorite number (and she introduced it on May 5), she had actually asked Breaux to come up with six perfume ideas for her and he labeled them number 1, number 2, and so on. Chanel picked No. 5.
Check out the bottle, also unchanged since the 1920s. It's a very elegant but extremely plain rectangle. Compared to the girly-girly perfume bottles of Chanel's day (and they're coming back now), this was stark.
Chanel No. 5 was purposely "artificial." That's what Chanel wanted and what Breaux, a master perfumist (he also created Evening in Paris) delivered.
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Thursday, March 1, 2007
Second Perfume Safari
Britt-Nicole and I went back for a second perfume safari. She wanted to try something new from Lancome (we couldn't remember the name) and I wanted to test Chanel No. 5. I've owned Chanel No. 5 before and wore it plenty of times, but I haven't revisited it in years and I'm terribly into retro-scents. So we went and took a sniff of the stuff.
Wow, both Britt-Nicole and I were stunned--it knocked our socks off. This fragrance is way better than I remembered it and I remembered it quite fondly. It's unbelievable.
Of course, we didn't buy it, for the simple reason that it's never our policy to buy everything we want all at once. We did wander over to the Lancome counter and tried out Hypnose and some other stuff. We settled on Tresor, which is a wonderful fragrance, kind of flowery but with some apricot notes and musk base notes. It's got a lilac scent to it, which sounds old-fashioned, but it really wasn't. Best of all, it wasn't one of those gender-spanning youthful scents. This was clearly woman's perfume.
By the way, our perfume counter now serves coffee, which we think is just too wonderful.
Wow, both Britt-Nicole and I were stunned--it knocked our socks off. This fragrance is way better than I remembered it and I remembered it quite fondly. It's unbelievable.
Of course, we didn't buy it, for the simple reason that it's never our policy to buy everything we want all at once. We did wander over to the Lancome counter and tried out Hypnose and some other stuff. We settled on Tresor, which is a wonderful fragrance, kind of flowery but with some apricot notes and musk base notes. It's got a lilac scent to it, which sounds old-fashioned, but it really wasn't. Best of all, it wasn't one of those gender-spanning youthful scents. This was clearly woman's perfume.
By the way, our perfume counter now serves coffee, which we think is just too wonderful.
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