How to achieve that French ageless beauty.
It all started when perfume-maker Ernest Beaux met designer Gabrielle Chanel. Today, ‘N°5 de Chanel’ is one of the world’s most prestigious and top-selling perfumes. Paris’ Palais de Tokyo is holding an exhibition in the trademark perfume’s honour.
As gravel disappears from French streets, scarves become more colorful and smiles more frequent, it is time to welcome the sunnier seasons with the appropriate scents.
With the opening of the Parisian parfumeur Diptyque's first store in Chicago at the end of 2012, Chicagoans can now experience the brand's luxurious scented candles, home fragrances and body care collection items for themselves - even closer to home.
Fragrances smell differently on different people. But a fragrance can also seem different on you from one occasion to another. Stress, medication or hormonal changes can make a fragrance smell in a new way, (probably worse, if you noticed it).
I feel great appreciation for perfumeries that are generous about samples and understand when a customer comes the third time in a week and wants to try the same perfume again.
If Chanel No. 5 was launched today, I wouldn’t be surprised if it were perceived as a political statement, such was the level of rebellion that it embodied.
It is a fact that many of the world’s most skilled noses are French, or if they are not, then they usually will have studied in Grasse. Most of the perfumes considered to be iconic have been created in France.
Many people would say that French women have a 'je ne sais quoi' that makes them ... irresistible. I am not sure if I measure up to this reputation; but today, I'm going to share with you some tricks that may help you unravel the mysteries of French women’s sex appeal.
The reasons why French women remain slim and beautiful despite their smoking, eating and exercising (or lack thereof) habits are a source of constant speculation from envious North American women - myself among them.
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