Scents Of Success

Perfume is a luxury we love to indulge in, but only a few scents become classics. Lizzie Ostrom looks at some iconic favourites from the last 100 years

Scent is our invisible companion. Sprayed or dabbed on in the morning as we blink the sleep from our eyes, it comes with us wherever we go. Some scents cling to their owners for decades. Others lose their appeal in months. They linger only until the next must-have steals their place… 1921 No.5 Chanel Whether or not Chanel’s perfume was entirely original (the perfumer Ernest Beaux may have come up with precursory ideas while still in Russia at Rallet & Co, but the revolution interrupted his work, thus making No.5’s frothy sparkling finish seem utterly original when he worked on it later in Paris), even in 1921 this perfume was perceived as something new. It quickly eclipsed its contemporary, Molyneux’s Le Numéro Cinq, and by the 1930s was being referred…

You're reading a preview of

Woman's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 09-feb-16

DiscountMags is a licensed distributor (not a publisher) of the above content and Publication through Zinio LLC. Accordingly, we have no editorial control over the Publications. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including those made in Publications offered on our website, are those of the respective author(s) or publisher(s) and not of DiscountMags. DiscountMags does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness, or usefulness of all or any portion of any publication or any services or offers made by third parties, nor will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information contained in any Publication, or your use of services offered, or your acceptance of any offers made through the Service or the Publications. For content removal requests, please contact Zinio.