Chanel Comète is the latest fragrance in the Les Exclusifs de Chanel line of house scents. Comprised of rare ingredients, each evokes a chapter from the life of Gabrielle Chanel. This includes 1957, the year that Mme Chanel received the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award, and Boy Chanel, inspired by her first love, Boy Capel. All are created by nose Olivier Polge, who became the fourth in-house perfumer in the history of Chanel. (Polge’s predecessor is his father Jacques Polge, who steered the olfactory ship from 1978 until his son took the wheel).
Comète tells the story of a particular piece of fine jewellery, the ‘Comète’ necklace, part of the 1932 collection ‘Bijoux de Diamants’, which celebrated Gabrielle Chanel’s obsession with stars and constellations. ‘I wanted to cover women in constellations. Stars! [...] See these comets, where the head glitters on a shoulder, and the sparkling tail slips behind the shoulders to fall back down in a shower of stars on the chest,’ she said about the design.
