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★ CENTENARY OF CHANEL N° 5 IN 2021: Based on the true love story of Coco Chanel and Arthur “Boy” Capel -Inspiration for the legendary perfume Chanel No 5.
★ English sample available.

France, 1919: Tout Paris is wearing Gabrielle Chanel’s designs. Coco, as she’s called, is renowned for her refusal to compromise when it comes to style – or love. Her fashions are revolutionary: she’s considered a byword for elegance, no restrictive corsets necessary.
But then her beloved Boy Capel dies in a car accident and Coco is plunged into grief. Seeking comfort after her loss, she begins a liaison with the composer Igor Stravinsky, but it’s not until she decides to commemorate the love of her life with a new fragrance – simultaneously creating a perfume for the modern woman – that Coco finds new energy. Her search for the right scent leads her to find inspiration in the perfume of Catherine the Great, and she meets Dmitri Romanov, a Russian Grand Duke in exile who feels as lost as she does.
Just as she’s gradually opening herself up to love once more, she finds herself on the trail of a fragrance that today is still the most famous perfume in the world – Chanel N° 5.

Michelle Marly
is the pseudonym of a bestselling German author who grew up in the world of cinema and music. Through her mother, a well-known fashion model in the 1950s, she gained early access to haute couture. Fragrances are her passion: from Italian convent perfumeries to the historic perfume factories of Grasse, she has conducted research everywhere. And naturally she herself wears Chanel N° 5.