STYLE ICON

This morning I saw it standing on my vanity. Chanel N°5. Frontrow. By now, everyone knows that Amayzine.com is crazy about Chanel in itself, but this scent is quite special to me. When my boyfriend and I were in Paris for the first time together, he dragged me to the Chanel boutique because he had to buy me the scent. In the city of love. Quite a cheesy story, but I still get butterflies in my stomach when I spray it on. Enough to keep me bathing in Chanel N°5 all day long.

The perfumer of Chanel in 1921, Ernest Beaux, was commissioned by mademoiselle Coco to create a perfume that smells like a woman. “A woman should smell like a woman and not like a rose.” Mr. Beaux then developed two perfume lines, from which Coco made her choice for number 5. This was launched on the fifth of the fifth in 1921. Five, according to Coco Chanel, is a lucky number. And the perfume certainly had luck. Nowadays, it flies off the shelves somewhere in the world every thirty seconds.