Chanel Bedtime Routine

Sleep is a vital, often neglected, component of every person’s overall health and well-being. Sleep is important because it enables the body to repair and be fit and ready for another day. Getting adequate rest may also help prevent excess weight gain, heart disease, and increased illness duration. Chanel has some amazing products for a luxurious bedtime routine. Indulge in this caring and perfuming ritual for the face and body to wake up relaxed and glowing.

Chanel Hydra Beauty Camellia Repair Mask

Hydrating is the key for a beautiful skin. While relaxing in the evening, I recommend to use this multi-use hydrating comforting face mask formulated with camellia wax to help lock in moisture, and panthenol, a moisturizing ingredient that protects the skin. The ultra-rich texture provides instant comfort while protecting the skin barrier. It has a leave-on formula, for all skin types.

Chanel Hydra Beauty Camellia Repair Mask comes in a 50ml package.

Chanel Le Lift Crème de Nuit

Once the mask is kind of absorbed, this smoothing and firming night cream for face and neck will do the rest. It has botanical alfalfa concentrate which is as efficient as retinol but very gentle on the skin. The dual-action Neuractif Night Complex gives skin a renewed look.

Chanel Le Lift Crème de Nuit comes in a 50ml package.

Chanel Sublimage L’Extrait de Nuit

If you want to indulge in pure luxury, this high-power skincare is the thing for you. A regenerating and restoring night concentrate that helps skin reconnect to its natural restoring cycle. This incredibly sensorial, highly concentrated serum contains naturally derived chronopeptide, plus Vanilla Planifolia and neroli fermented elixirs complex for ultimate power. Upon awaking, skin looks rested and radiant. Night after night, the complexion appears restored and strengthened.

Chanel Sublimage L’Extrait de Nuit comes in a 40ml package.

Chanel Coco Mademoiselle L’Eau Privée Eau Pour La Nuit

For the first time, Olivier Polge has imagined a night fragrance. Composed around a delicate accord of jasmine absolute and rose petal notes, L’Eau Privée exalts the most sensual and softest musk notes of the Coco Mademoiselle fragrance. It’s the ultimate touch before night falls.

With L’Eau Privée, I wanted to create a light and delicate version of Coco Mademoiselle, imagining a night fragrance like a soft and sensual veil.

Olivier Polge, Chanel Perfumer

You would love to apply it on your pulse points, where the skin is warmest: ‘the place where you would be kissed’, on the wrists, behind the ears, in the dip of the décolleté or at the nape of the neck, or even to scent the hair. Screen icon Marilyn Monroe famously said in an interview in 1952 that she wore ‘five drops of Chanel No. 5’and nothing else in bed. I am going to say, I only wear a spritz of L’Eau Privée. Chanel Coco Mademoiselle L’Eau Privée Eau Pour La Nuit is available in a 50 and 100ml flacon.

Chanel fragrances and skincare products are available at selected stores worldwide, and online. Come into the beautiful world of Chanel.

Chanel releases Coco Mademoiselle l’Eau Privée, a night scent; Keira Knightley fronts campaign

Keira Knightley is the face of Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle L’Eau Privée ‘Eau Pour La Nuit’, the Maison’s latest take on the Coco Mademoiselle range first launched in 2001. With the new addition, Coco Mademoiselle comes in five varieties: Parfum, Eau de Parfum Intense, Eau de Parfum, Eau de Toilette, and the new L’Eau Privée.

With L’Eau Privée, I wanted to create a light and delicate version of Coco Mademoiselle, imagining a night fragrance like a soft and sensual veil.

Olivier Polge, Chanel Perfumer

For the first time, Chanel’s in-house parfumier has imagined a night fragrance. L’Eau Privée has been described as ‘a watercolour scent’, composed around a delicate accord of jasmine absolute and rose petal notes. L’Eau Privée exalts the most sensual and softest musk notes of the Coco Mademoiselle fragrance. Chanel says it remains true to the original oriental fragrance but is more ‘confidential’ and delicate. It is seen as a ‘night scent’. It’s the ultimate touch before night falls.

You would love to apply it on your pulse points, where the skin is warmest: ‘the place where you would be kissed’, on the wrists, behind the ears, in the dip of the décolleté or at the nape of the neck, or even to scent the hair. Screen icon Marilyn Monroe famously said in an interview in 1952 that she wore ‘five drops of Chanel No. 5’and nothing else in bed. I am going to say, I only wear a spritz of L’Eau Privée.

The flacon of Coco Mademoiselle L’Eau Privée is in translucent frosted glass, with the words L’Eau Privée in gold lettering, looking more subtle against the contents.

Chanel Coco Mademoiselle L’Eau Privée Eau Pour La Nuit is available in a 50 and 100ml flacon, and is available at selected stores worldwide, and online. Come into the beautiful world of Chanel.

Special Lancôme La Vie Est Belle Collector Edition

This year, French Maison Lancôme is presenting a special collector edition of their bestseller La Vie Est Belle Eau de Parfum from 2012, the fruity – floral – gourmand composed by perfumers Oliver Polge, Anne Flipo and Dominique Ropion. Lancôme La Vie Est Belle leaves a sensual and feminine impression, as a modern gourmand; intense and addictive. The perfume, embodied by Julia Roberts, is a fragrant homage to the beauty and joy of life.

Top notes: pear, black currant
Middle notes: iris Palida, orange blossom, absolute jasmine Sambac
Base notes: patchouli, praline, tonka beans, vanilla

La Vie Est Belle’s composition opens up juicy, fruity, in an overture to the rich floral heart of iris Pallida, absolute jasmine Sambac, and sparkling orange blossom, layered on a warm and comfortable gourmand bed of pralines, vanilla, tonka beans and patchouli.

The iconic flacon remains the same, while the light pink organza bow is much bigger and more romantic. The La Vie Est Belle Collector Edition is available as a 50ml Eau de Parfum in limited amount.

Lancôme La Vie Est Belle is available at Lancôme counters and selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Lancôme.

 

 

 

A new destination Chanel Paris-Riviera

 

French Maison Chanel launches a new perfume for both men and women simply named Paris-Riviera. Chanel Paris Riviera is all you need to have if you want to look stylish, modern, and memorable.

Launched in 2018, the Les Eaux de Chanel collection opened a whole new realm of olfactory sensations in the world of Chanel fragrances: one of freshness and elegance in any situation. Inspired by Gabrielle Chanel’s favorite destinations, and created by Olivier Polge, Les Eaux de Chanel adds a new destination: Paris-Riviera. Rare and exclusive, the new motionless escape will be available for one year starting June 1, 2019

Paris-Riviera is a floral and luminous fragrance that reflects the joyful, sunny spirit of the Côte d’Azur in the 1920s.

Olivier Polge

The mere mention of its name conjures up images of a coastline winding its way between the Alps and the Mediterranean. Bringing the promise of azure blue and dancing sunlight, the Riviera evokes an enveloping softness and the lazy days of summer. From the far south bordering Italy and Monte Carlo to the Var, artists and creators from around the world were drawn to this Mediterranean coast as early as the 1920s. Thanks to her friend Misia Sert who introduced her to Venice, the gateway to the Orient, Gabrielle Chanel began sojourning on the Riviera in 1920.

Gabrielle Chanel at her villa La Pausa, Roquebrune

She loved driving to Monaco with the Grand Duke Dimitri or travelling south on the Train Bleu, a means of transport made famous by Serge de Diaghilev who wrote a ballet by the same name and entrusted the costume design to Mademoiselle Chanel. She could often be found on the Côte d’Azur during the Roaring Twenties, one day on the Duke of Westminster’s yacht in Monte Carlo, another at her regular haunt, the Hôtel de Paris in Monaco, or at the Société des Bains de Mer resort known for its legendary parties. Gabrielle Chanel also frequented Cannes, where she opened a boutique, and joined the painters and writers who flocked to Saint-Tropez, which was but a fishing port at the time.

The Côte d’Azur dream of the 1920s is what guided the development of this new fragrance. A sun-filled Eden that was a magnet for artists. The flawless architecture of the villas in those days. The bright and happy atmosphere of party nights….

Olivier Polge

But a little to the East, on the heights of Roquebrune, is where she chose to point her compass and have her villa La Pausa built. Mademoiselle oversaw every last architectural detail, and had olive groves and fields of lavender planted. She made it her permanent vacation home, where she entertained a number of celebrities such as The Begum Andrée Aga Khan, Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dalí. There in her beloved southern France, Gabrielle Chanel wove a tapestry of moments suspended in time and joyful memories.

The fantasy-filled world of the Riviera inspired perfumer-creator Olivier Polge to compose a luminous and elegant fragrance.

Woven with Sicilian and Calabrian citrus, Chanel Paris-Riviera invite you to travel, to escape without reason and sail away. With Les Eaux de Chanel, there is no need to go anywhere to savor the scent of faraway places on the skin.

The perfumer noticed a remarkable lightheartedness in the pictures of Gabrielle Chanel surrounded by friends, her face upturned to the sun, and incarnated it with a fragrance of Mediterranean flowers bathed in fresh citrus. He teamed jasmine with a unique quality of neroli from the orange blossoms found in the South of France.

Top notes: Petitgrain, Orange zest
Hart: Jasmin, Neroli
Basis: Benzoin, Musk

Chanel Paris-Riviera is a pleasant fragrant citrusy scent with hints of flowers and green notes very soft and truly romantic. As many Chanel perfumes, this one is not an exception of being remarkably sensual, warm spicy, not too pungent, yet long-lasting and luring. 

For years, we have worked with a cooperative in Vallauris that distills orange blossoms grown in the region’s private gardens. The owners of bitter orange groves bring the petals picked from their trees to this cooperative to be processed on location. The local climate yields an extremely pure essence.

Olivier Polge

Chanel Paris-Riviera is instantly recognizable on the skin: a refreshing veil of orange peel and petit grain. Then emerges the pairing of jasmine and neroli with enveloping fullness. Over time, an irresistible softness fuses with the floral impression : it is the work of benzoin balm and sandalwood. The airy signature scent of the Les Eaux de Chanel collection creates a snapshot of summer with a single spray. A promise of azure blue and sun on the skin. A one-way trip to a legendary Mediterranean coast.

The flacon of Paris – Riviera remains the same as the previous editions of the collection. Simplicity and elegance are reflected in the clear lines of the glass and the  cap engraved with the iconic double C and wrapped in a corrugated cardboard case that evokes the rippling of the sea water as it recedes from the beach and leaves its marks in the sand. Its special pump encourages generous perfuming with an enveloping mist that has the effect of a soft and delicate cloud.

Available in limited edition from June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020 at Chanel Boutiques and on Chanel.com. Chanel Paris – Riviera is available as 125ml Eau de Toilette. Come into the wonderful world of Chanel.

 

 

 

 

 

Chanel Parfumeur Chapter 1: I Am An Idea

The world of Chanel fragrances is an undisputed success story, born from the very first No.5 perfume, created by Ernest Beaux for Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, that’s often imitated, but never truly duplicated. More than just a scent that lingers all day long, Chanel fragrances have an ability to connect with the mind, empowering you to be a stronger individual with every spray.

For the first time, French Maison Chanel tells the story of fragrance in an exclusive series. Discover the first chapter, I Am An Idea, featuring the voice of Vanessa Paradis.

They are also scents that enable you to express your personality, dressing you like an invisible olfactory garment that seeks to complement your daily outfit. Or, in the case of Marilyn Monroe, who famously declared that she wore a few drops of No.5 to bed, and nothing else. It’s a source of comfort, a precious connection and one that becomes one with your identity over time.

Now the French Maison is going further into the world of its signature fragrances, carrying on Gabrielle Chanel’s vision together with Olivier Polge’s masterful modern-day interpretation, with an all-new series of mini-films, Chanel Parfumeur. The series serves as a means to highlight the house’s expertise in fragrances, along with the history of how it all began. The very first chapter, ‘I Am An Idea’ – directed by Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai – is narrated by Vanessa Paradis and describes the manifesto when it comes to Chanel’s fragrance creation. Enjoy!

Come into the wonderful world of Chanel.

 

 

 

 

Lancôme La Vie Est Belle Sparkly Christmas Edition

Early this new year, Lancôme launches La Vie Est Belle Sparkly Christmas Edition – a new limited edition perfume. This will make a perfect gift due to its beautiful glittering bow around the cap inspiring the Christmas atmosphere and fairy feelings. 

Embellish your life with La vie est belle, Lancôme’s most iconic feminine fragrance.

This holiday, happiness is a gift, a radiance that you share with others, wrapped in the shape of a crystal smile and embellished with radiant silver sparkles. La vie est belle is a universal declaration to the beauty of life. Embellish your life with La Vie est Belle, Lancôme’s most iconic feminine fragrance.

A unique olfactory signature perfume scent created by three of France’s leading perfumers. Created by Olivier Polge, Anne Flipo and Dominique Ropion, it is spreading happiness with the first gourmand Iris. Every drop of La Vie est Belle is infused with a joyful spirit. The radiant & warm-hearted iris spreads happiness in its wake.

Top Notes: Pear, Blackberry
Heart Notes: Orange Blossom and Jasmine Sambac absolute
Base Notes: Patchouli, Iris

A true testament to Lancôme’s heritage, the bottle is inspired by a masterpiece from the Lancôme archives. A modern take on ‘The Crystal Smile’ created in 1949 by artisctic director George Delhomme. This bottle captures Lancôme founder Armand Petitjean’s vision of femininity, represented here in the shape of a smile.

This holiday, the iconic bottle is adorned with a pearlescent golden organza ribbon is affixed around its neck, and covered in delicate and luminous silver sparkles, becoming the ultimate gift to spread happiness.

La Vie Est Belle Sparkly Christmas Edition will be available in 50ml Eau de Parfum.

 

 

 

 

Chanel 1957 Perfume to hit on 57th Street

 

French Maison Chanel is filling up its luxurious and acclaimed Les Exclusifs Collection with one more breath-taking, elegant and very feminine perfume Chanel 1957. The new perfume, Chanel 1957, will be officially feted at the brand’s flagship store on 57th Street in New York City – which was closed for two years and re-opens just in time for the holidays!

In 1957, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is rewarded for her world-renowned talent and audacity to seize, reinvent and magnify rare materials. The 1957 fragrance embodies this spirit, signature to the heart of every Chanel creation. A sensual accord of white musk, delicately fashioned with floral notes of Bergamot, Iris and neroli, woody notes of Cedar, powdery accents and a hint of honey. A luminous fragrance, a statement to the timeless style of Chanel. An exquisite scent from Les Exclusif’s de Chanel fragrance collection. The last fragrance added to the Les Exclusifs collection was Boy, in 2016.

Chanel 1957 perfume is created by the in-house perfumer Olivier Polge and promises an intense musky aroma to fully satisfy even the most pretentious women. At the moment, this is the only news about the new Chanel perfume. I will describe it with more information after its official release.

The 1957 fragrance is exclusively available at the Chanel boutique at N°15 East 57th Street in New York City from November 2018 to February 2019. It is $350 for 200 ml.

 

 

 

Les Exclusifs de Chanel box set revisits iconic scents

Chanel has created a new set of mini perfumes from the collection ‘Les Exclusifs de Chanel’, which draws its inspiration from the French brand’s history. A limited edition which will go on sale on February 17, 2017, exclusively at select Chanel Beauté sales points.

While you’re bound to be familiar with No 5, No 19, Coco Mademoiselle and perhaps a few more Chanel perfumes, Les Exclusifs are the real gems. Created from 1922 onwards, these are the most rare and luxurious scents in Chanel’s armoury, ranging from florals to leathers and orientals. Each one is inspired by a key element, person or place in Coco Chanel’s life, from her Parisian apartment, 31 Rue Cambon, to her dearest friend, Misia

Exquisite precious materials, elegant bottles, timeless fragrances: ‘Les Exclusifs de Chanel’ was created between 1922 and 2016 by renowned perfumers with close links to the French fashion and beauty house. Ernest Beaux, Jacques Polge, and Olivier Polge have come up with their own interpretation of a place, texture, meeting or symbol loved by Gabrielle Chanel. Together they form a unique collection, taking us on a perfumed journey through Chanel’s history.

The collection consists of 15 4ml perfume bottles: 14 Eau de Parfum and one Eau de Cologne. An opportunity to (re)discover and appreciate a selection of rare fragrances which include hesperidium, woody, floral and oriental scents.

Fans of unusual perfumes and collectors will be pleased to discover that this set contains ‘Bel Respiro’, a floral evocation of spring, ‘Sycomore’, a woody scent based around vetiver, ‘Coromandel’ with its incense, benzoin, and patchouli notes, the oriental scent ‘Cuir de Russie’, the aromatic-floral-powdery ‘Jersey’, and the woody and fruity ‘N°18′.

The set also includes ’31 rue Cambon’, ’28 La Pausa’, ‘N°22’, ‘1932’, ‘Gardénia’, Beige’, Bois des Iles’, ‘Eau de Cologne’, and ‘Misia’, a fragrance created by Olivier Polge.

This ‘Les Exclusifs de Chanel’ set of 15 mini perfumes will go on sale on February 17 for €280, exclusively at Chanel Beauté stores and the brand’s e-shop.

Oh, Boy: Chanel launches new fragrance

Fashion designer, Coco Chanel is well known around the world for her fabulous fashion line worn by all the A-list celebrities. What many people don’t realise is, Coco (who’s real name is Gabrielle) was raised in an orphanage which is where she was taught her sewing skills.

After having a brief career as a singer she became friends with, Étienne Balsan and stayed with him just outside of Paris where she lived as a ‘kept woman’ in his mansion, and this is where she began to mingle with Balsans wealthy companions and this is when she met a man who would change her life forever, Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel.

Arthur Edward Capel loved to read

Captain Arthur Edward ‘Boy’ Capel (1881 – 22 December 1919) was an English poloplayer, possibly best remembered for being a lover and muse of fashion designer Coco Chanel.

Born in Brighton, Sussex, Arthur Capel was a ship-owner, politician, tycoon and polo player . He was the son of Arthur Joseph Capel, a British shipping merchant, and his French-born wife, the former Berthe Andrée A. E. Lorin (1856-1902), and he had three sisters. But today he is better known for his 9 year love affair with Coco Chanel.

Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel and Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel (middle) in front of the Chanel Boutique in Deauville in 1913

His affair with Chanel apparently began in 1909, when he became acquainted with the then 26 year old mistress of his friend Étienne Balsan. In that time he was already an apparently wealthy self-made man and he supplied Chanel with financial backing, and financed Chanel’s first shops. His own clothing style, notably his blazers, inspired her to put a squared masculine touch on her classic clothing styles, and creation the Chanel look. If it wasn’t for Arthur’s money or style then Chanel would never had had the funds or fashion muse to make what is one of the most well-known designer brands in the world.

The couple spent much time together at fashionable resorts such as Deauville, but.. he was never faithful to Chanel. Their relationship lasted nine years, and even after Capel married in 1918, he continued his affair with Chanel until his death in late 1919.

Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, Étienne Balsan and Arthur Edward ‘Boy‘ Capel

Arthur tragically died in a car crash on Monday 22 December 1919, allegedly en route to a Christmas rendez-vous with Chanel. A roadside memorial was placed at the site of the accident, consisting of a cross bearing the inscription:

A la mémoire du capitaine Arthur Capel, Légion d’Honneur de l’Armée Britannique, mort accidentellement en cet endroit le 22 décembre 1919

He was buried with full military honours at Fréjus Cathedral, in the Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France, on 24 December 1919. After his death Coco began wearing black during her grieving process and she told a friend that the world would mourn with her which is where the ‘little black dress’ evolved from, and why black is no longer tied in hand with association with death but more with elegance and class. Chanel claimed Arthur Edward ‘Boy‘ Capel was the love of her life.

An exceptional Fresh Aromatic fragrance infused with the timeless elegance

We were so busy waiting for Chanel’s reinterpretation of their No. 5 fragrance titled L’Eau (slated for a fall release) that we didn’t see this one coming at all! The new scent from Chanel is a unisex fragrance created by the house’s master perfumer Olivier Polge. It also becomes the latest (17th) addition to the Les Exclusifs collection and just like Misia (also an Olivier Polge creation), it was inspired by one of Chanel’s closest friends: Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel.  Gabrielle Chanel considered him as more than her soul mate; he was her double and her alter ego. Inspired by their love, Boy Chanel is a vibrant, perfectly balanced scent that challenges tradition and transcends gender.

My way of working on this fragrance was really not to try to make a unisex fragrance but really more to dive into men’s fragrance…and to show how well it could be worn by a woman. So it was not to try to create an in-between fragrance, but a very masculine fragrance. And — like many other things in life — gender is given by the person wearing it.

Olivier Polge

Boy is a masculine fougère with main accords of lavender and rose geranium sourced from the south of France. The composition also includes lemon and grapefruit, a note of rose, orange blossom, sandalwood and heliotropin, plus a hint of vanilla and musk accords. Like the others in the Les Exclusifs collection, it is contained in a simple rectangular bottle, and will become available worldwide this month in in two sizes, 75 and 200 ml Eau de Toilette.

You need this — and so does your boyfriend!

 

 

 

Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb

This floral explosion releases a profusion of flowers that has the power to make everything seem more positive. Magically evocative notes immediately awaken your deepest senses, giving you the impression of living life in your own secret garden, away from reality.

Created by one of my favourite perfumers Olivier Polge, along with Carlos Benaim and Domitille Berthier, it was introduced ten years ago, in 2005 as an oriental and floral fragrance, and became a true classic and was Allure Best of Beauty award winner.

I found that this has a really sweet, powdery scent that could be overpowering but isn’t. Normally this would put me off a perfume but it hasn’t with this one.  You can really smell the patchouli and the orchid adds a sweet elegance to the scent.  When this is combined to the subtle luxury of the green tea, you have a really pretty perfume. It is really long-lasting and a few sprays will last for hours, which I always love with a fragrance.

• Top notes: Bergamot, Green Tea, Osmanthus
• Heart notes: Jasmine, African Orange Flower, Freesia, Rose, Orchid
• Base notes: Musk, Patchouli

 

The gorgeous bottle was designed by Fabien Baron in the shape of a diamond grenade.

You love Viktor & Rolf’s Flowerbomb? Use it with Body Lotion or for the dry skin Flowerbomb Bodycream in its beautiful jar. Or, very special: with Flowerbomb Hair Mist, to give your hair a vèry subtile smell. And when your hair ‘moves’….(wink)…