ON CLOUD FIVE
It was a cold, rainy Wednesday morning in Grasse, France, where we geared up in black glossy rain boots, embossed with Chanel’s interlocking C logo, to discover the endless fields of the blossomed May rose.
The flower has been growing in the region since the Middle Ages, but it was in 1921—when Gabrielle Chanel requested perfumer Ernest Beaux to create a fragrance—that it became one of the key notes for Chanel N°5.
The fields, which
