Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow, (Translated by Jessica Spengler, Polity publications, 2021). Later, Schlögel encountered this scent in East Germany as well. And finally he learned that this was a ...

The Scent of Empires, translated by Jessica Spengler, recounts the shared history but divergent fates of the individuals involved in creating Chanel No 5 and Red Moscow. Both fragrances were ...

But the formula itself has a surprisingly rich and political history, as told in the new book “The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow” (Polity Press), out now, by Karl Schlögel.

Russian for “Red Moscow,” Krasnaya Moskva (Красная ... the same as that of an equally famous western perfume, Chanel No. 5, which Beaux developed a few years before Krasnaya Moskva ...

Chanel N°5 has been one of the most famous fragrances in the world for over a century, yet the powdery floral perfume manages to keep us on our toes. There have been many iterations of it over ...

“Much like No. 5, Marilyn carries something universal and at the same time very intimate,” Thomas du Pré de Saint Maur, Chanel’s head of global creative resources for fragrance and ...

As the first fragrance launched by the fashion house, Chanel No.5 has gained iconic status the world over. Created by Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel in 1921, it was designed to appeal to flapper ...