In my mind’s eye, it went down like this: “Amber? You want us to develop an Exclusif focused on amber?” I picture four or five people around an ebony table in a taupe-tinted room with black moldings — the board room version of a Chanel suit.
“You did it with patchouli,” the executive says. “No one smells Coromandel and thinks of Woodstock.”
“Not at that price,” the intern mutters…
Chanel has launched Le Lion de Chanel, a new addition to the Les Exclusifs collection. The fragrance is currently exclusive to the Middle East, and is expected to go into wider distribution in early 2021.
Yesterday afternoon, I walked a stretch of Paris’s gritty 19th arrondissement with a friend who lives here. “Every neighborhood has its own personality,” he said. “Yet it’s all Paris.” That’s a good way to describe the fragrances in Chanel’s Les Exclusifs line, including the latest, Chanel 1957. Each of the fragrances has its own personality, but each is Chanel. The difference is that 1957’s personality is enough like an aura to complement your own personality, too.
Olivier Polge composed 1957, and its notes include white musk, bergamot, iris, neroli, cedar, powdery accents and honey. In short, 1957 is all about layers of cloud-like musk…
Chanel will launch 1957, a new addition to the Les Exclusifs collection. The fragrance is reportedly being introduced at the brand’s flagship store on 57th Street in New York City, which will re-open today after two years of renovations. The last fragrance added to the Les Exclusifs collection was Boy, in 2016…
Chanel will launch Les Eaux de Chanel next month. The three fragrances — Paris-Biarritz, Paris-Deauville and Paris-Venise — were developed by house perfumer Oliver Polge…