P.S Comme je ne sais pas si vous allez lire les commentaires des autres, voici le commentaire que j'ai reçu de Mademoiselle S, spécialiste en la matière:


Toutes tes infos sont exactes : Coco voulait une parfum de femme à odeur de femme.
C'est le premier parfum aldéhydé de l'histoire de la parfumerie. Ce fut une révolution à son époque, et le début de la parfumerie moderne ...

Info en plus si je peux me permettre : Chanel est la seule maison à proposer trois versions différentes d'un même jus. En effet la composition varie légèrement entre l'eau de toilette, l'eau de parfum et l'extrait. Alors on peut aimer une EDT (eau de toilette) et ne pas aimer l'EDP ou l'extrait ...
Désolée de sortir ma science, mais ton article a fait renaître de vieux souvenirs ... au boulot j'étais l'experte en Chanel.

Merci pour ces infos complémentaires, Brioche.

Do you remember my post where I told you about my not so nice encounter with a sample of Chanel N°5 in a magazine which ended in the bathroom ? I asked you to tell me how you liked the smell of the top selling perfume in the world and here are the results :

I got 7 comments :

5 people told me that they did not like the smell.
2 people liked it but one as Eau de Toilette only.
Including me and my husband that makes 7 people out of nine that do not like its scent in particular.

So why is it the best sold perfume on Earth ? Well, have a look at a bit of history :

The fragrance was created in 1921 by Ernest Beaux for the French designer Coco Chanel. Coco's inspiration behind the scent was to create something very artificial, something that has been made like a dress.
br> The fragrance is supposedly named because she picked the fifth sample by the perfumeur, and because her new collection was to be presented on a 5th of May.

It consists of 80 ingredients and has a floral top note of Ylang-Ylang and Neroli.

Celebrity women like Marilyn Monroe, Catherine Deneuve, Carole Bouquet, Nicole Kidman and lately Audrey Tautou have all made some kind of promotion for this fragrance. In 1959 Andy Warhol did a series of nine silkscreens of the Chanel No. 5 bottle, once again making it the fragrance to covet.
br> So this might be the key for its success.

I had a look on the Web to find out what women think about the scent and the opinions are rather divided. It all seems to be connected with the womens skin chemistry, as it is generally the case with fragrances.

The only thing I can say is that I got used to it in the long term but it still is not my favourite scent.