On contact with water, the soap delivers a light, creamy lather that leaves the skin supple, soft and delicately scented. A moment of serenity imbued with the magic of N°5. In 1921, Gabrielle Chanel called upon Ernest Beaux to create a woman's perfume with a woman's scent, intense and original. The nose proposed a visionary composition using aldehydes in a new way. Mademoiselle approved the number 5 version of the fragrance, and decided to keep the number as a simple name. The fragrance's innovative scent, but also its name and bottle, of rare simplicity, revolutionised the history of perfumery.