What it takes to create something so timeless like Chanel No. 5? Is it marketing, or is the ingenuity of the perfumer what has kept this perfume on the top of the most expensive luxury goods for 95 years?
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In <em>Scent And Subversion</em>, Barbara Herman explains how, at the turn of the 20th century, most perfumes were still just one note, floral. Then along came a fragrance that changed everything. "With Chanel No. 5," Herman says, "Coco Chanel said, 'A woman needs to smell like a woman, and not a rose.'"
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