Chanel 5

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZZ5CM6EYumEg2Z3me_WC2gIN7cSMkoiAsbqYHwGYOjxoiGMCtH-RE5JgbLSU0NbFIiA1NHvAc2jlOwkkxBxFG6IJ1GMk2I986s-Yp0azPETIHCEs8D87og3v8MHbsSoTFcYoDRTtJYNI/s1600/CHANEL+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZZ5CM6EYumEg2Z3me_WC2gIN7cSMkoiAsbqYHwGYOjxoiGMCtH-RE5JgbLSU0NbFIiA1NHvAc2jlOwkkxBxFG6IJ1GMk2I986s-Yp0azPETIHCEs8D87og3v8MHbsSoTFcYoDRTtJYNI/s400/CHANEL+5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Chanel No. 5</b><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"></sup> is the first perfume launched by Parisian couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. The French government reports that a bottle of Chanel No. 5 is sold every thirty seconds and generates sales of $100 million a year.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"><i><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from August 2011"></span></i></sup> It was developed by Russian-French chemist and perfumer Ernest Beaux. It is often considered the world's most famous perfume.</span><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><span class="mw-headline" id="Iconography_of_the_No._5_name"></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Iconography_of_the_No._5_name">Iconography of the No. 5 name</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">At the age of twelve, Chanel was handed over to the care of nuns, and for the next six years spent a stark, disciplined existence in a convent orphanage, Aubazine, founded in the twelfth century.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"></sup> From her earliest days at Aubazine, the number five had potent associations for Chanel. Aubazine had been founded by Cistercians, a Catholic order who placed great emphasis on numerology. The number five was especially esteemed as signifying the pure embodiment of a thing, its spirit, its mystic meaning. The paths, which led Chanel to the cathedral for daily prayer, were laid out in circular patterns repeating the number five.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"></sup></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Her affinity for the number five co-mingled with the abbey gardens, and by extension the lush surrounding hillsides abounding with cistus, a five-petal rose. It is noteworthy that the Cistercians, an ancient branch of Catholicism, derived the name of their order from this very flower.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"></sup></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In 1920, when presented with small glass vials of scent numbered 1-5 and 20-24, for her assessment, she chose the sample composition contained in the fifth vial. Chanel told her master perfumer, Ernest Beaux, whom she had commissioned to develop a fragrance with modern innovations:</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">"I present my dress collections on the fifth of May, the fifth month of the year and so we will let this sample number five keep the name it has already, it will bring good luck."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"></sup></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"></sup></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"></sup></span><br /><sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"><i></i></sup><br /><sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"><i></i></sup><br /><sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;"><i><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from August 2011"></span></i></sup></div>

Chanel 5

Chanel No. 5 is the first perfume launched by Parisian couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. The French government reports that a bo...

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