by Leslie Cox; Monday; October 7, 2024

Did you know…

            …it takes nearly 1,000 jasmine flowers and twelve roses to produce the lovely perfume in a single bottle of Chanel No. 5 perfume?

Ernest Beaux, a French-Russian chemist and Coco Chanel’s head perfumer, perfected the scent formula and it subsequently was offered for sale in 1921.