Without the Great Duke Dmitri of Russia, there would be no Chanel No.5. In 1921, couturiers made clothes and perfumers made fragrance, but when the grand duke escorted his good friend Coco Chanel on ...

A new book explains the mysterious origins of Chanel No. 5, which helped make Coco Chanel a household name. Alamy; Corbis via Getty Images Coco Chanel stood in a laboratory in France, sniffing a ...

Designer Coco Chanel’s Chanel No. 5 — a perfume that changed the fragrance world forever — turns 100 this year, giving fans a new reason to rejoice in the most iconic of women’s luxury scents. In 1921 ...

Coco Chanel’s original model for Chanel No 5 leads the annual selection of the Perfume Bottles Auction directed by Ken Leach at the IPBA Convention I am not interested in any work done for the masses ...

At the heart of the collection is a necklace that features a magnificent 55.55-karat emerald diamond at its center. Four bottles of Chanel No. 5 perfume by Gabrielle Chanel from 1921 at the ...

Today marks 132 years after the pioneering fashion designer and perfume creator Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was born. Chanel is probably most famous for her modernist and liberating fashion design legacy ...

We all know the interlocking C's and that famous little black dress, but the woman behind the brand lived a life that was way ...

Every 30 seconds, someone somewhere in the world buys a bottle of Chanel No. 5, the French government declared in 2006, a claim that has often been repeated. Whether it’s still true, or if it ever was ...

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The accessory — which doubles as a diamond ring — takes its inspiration from the design of the iconic perfume bottle. By Lindsay Talbot A 1927 colored lithograph by the French artist Georges Goursat, ...