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Chanel

Chanel's perfume history starts with N°5 in 1921, whose aldehydes gave flowers a soapy sparkle. Coco is a warm ambery floral, Coco Mademoiselle (2001) a clean patchouli chypre with grapefruit and lychee, the Chance family runs from fruity to crisp, and Bleu de Chanel is the house's woody men's line. Fragrances sharing a name often have different notes in each concentration.