<p>On May 5, 1921, the famed perfume Chanel N&deg; 5 was launched for the first time, making it exactly 100 years old today.</p>

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      <p>Classic comes to mind when thinking of the creations of <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/gabrielle-chanel-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel</a>, the founder of the French fashion house. The free-spirited woman thought her maison needed a luxury fragrance to match. A pioneer of contemporary women's fashion, her styles emancipated the female form with pants, flexible jersey materials, and a chain strap on bags to keep the hands free. And just like these innovations, the perfume also had to be different from the norm: the essence of the modern woman in one fragrance. That led Chanel to the famous quote: "A woman should smell like a woman, not like a rose."</p>
      <p>The designer had nose Ernest Beaux design a special and intense perfume for women with a feminine scent. The perfumer made her fragrance with a visionary composition in which aldehydes were used for the first time. Chanel preferred version number 5 of the perfume, and decided to use this number as the name.</p>
      <p>For the new perfume she chose a completely new bottle, with a white label and a faceted stopper.&nbsp; In 1986, Jacques Polge, Chanel's nose since 1978, reinterpreted the composition of his predecessor to make a fuller version of <a href="https://www.chanel.com/us/fragrance/p/125230/n5-eau-de-parfum-spray/?gclid=CjwKCAjwhMmEBhBwEiwAXwFoET7SMDOayLUKd3Ql9_hhKSnCgQpZ4EF19pg2-U-2cmtcVKh2iiKGoxoCptQQAvD_BwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">N&deg; 5: the eau de parfum</a>.</p>
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      <p><span> It was May 5, 1921 when Chanel debuted her first perfume at her </span>Rue Cambon store<strong><span>&nbsp;</span></strong><span>in Paris. It was unique in the fact that she was the first designer to attract enough attention with only a last name on the bottle.&nbsp; But N&deg; 5's combination of jasmine, rose, ylang-ylang, patchouli, lily, iris, vetiver, sandalwood, vanilla, and amber was also alluring. It is not without reason that </span>Marilyn Monroe<strong> </strong><span>once said, "What do I wear to bed? Why, Chanel N &deg; 5, of course." </span></p>
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