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The new CHANEL N°5 film

The new CHANEL N°5 screen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with Audrey Tautou and Travis Davenport

nicole kidman chanel commercial

gorgeous chanel ad with nicole kidman

Chanel No.5 Estella Warren

Estella Warren as the Baby Red Riding Hood in a Chanel No.5 TV ad

Chanel No. 5 Perfume History: How Did Chanel Create the Top ...

The Line of Chanel No. 5

Chanel No. 5 is one of the most eminent perfumes in recapitulation and sells around one mettle every 30 seconds. This praiseworthy redolence was created for Coco Chanel in 1921 by a perfume father named Ernest Beaux. Something which may seem surprising in a 21st century obsessed with getting back to kind is that Coco's afflatus behind the distinguish was to contrive something very synthetic. She is quoted on the seemly Chanel website as saying “I destitution to give the the human race something concocted.... like a tucker. Something that has been made.... I need a eau-de-Cologne that is a set-up”. Ernest Beaux responded by creating a magnum opus inspired by the midnight sun, the lakes and the rivers of the Arctic surround which he had visited a year once upon a time.

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» Madame says: VINTAGE YSL & CHANEL No 5

Nathaniel HATES me in these glasses! Calls me “Reg” as in Kray….

Still, peradventure with a bit of best silk YSL and a small-scale Chanel we’ve got something.

Or possibly not.

Anyway, while I’m here, if anyone happens to be in Clapham tonight, I shall be at the Ink Rooms, Lavender Hill giving it SOUNDS from 9pm – 1.30am.