Coco Chanel from the famed Chanel fashion house had commissioned Ernest Beaurx to create 6 different perfumes. When Coco tested the 6 bottles she liked the 5th bottle and that is how Chanel No 5 came to be. Coco introduced the scent to her friends and in 1921, it was given away free at her boutiques to test the waters. In 1924 Pierre Wertheimer became Coco’s partner. He obtained 70 percent of the company, Coco kept 10 percent and her friend Bader owned 20 percent. The Wertheimer family still owns the company today.
But Chanel no 5 remains their best selling perfume of all time. Chanel no 5 is such a timeless classic, you don’t really see the younger women wearing as you do the older generation. The scent is a light floral, back in day before synthetics were used in perfumes, women would have to lay on the scent pretty thick in order for the smell to last. In this period of time, most of the perfumes were a pretty and floral scent.
When the scent was being created it was designed to enhance a pretty woman’s beauty. That was what Coco Chanel had hoped for. The floral scent is enhanced by ylang ylang, iris, rose and jasmine and not to mention some vanilla, sandalwood and vetiver. The scent has only made one changed over the years and that was the addition to synthetics, otherwise the scent has not changed since 1921.
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