TOP 5 WOMEN PERFUMES

Chanel N° 5 is the first fragrance that Parisian couturiere Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel created. It was launched in 1921, and the scent has not stopped selling since. It has been called “the world’s most legendary fragrance,” and consistently comes among the top places in perfume sales charts. According to the company of Parfums Chanel, a bottle of Chanel N° 5 is sold every 55 seconds; it remains the company’s top selling scent. The French perfumer Ernest Beaux created the fragrance, which stands out for its overdose of a 1:1:1 accord of aldehydes C-10 (decanal), C-11 (undecanal) and C-12 (dodecanal).

The scent J’adore was created in 1999 by Calice Becker for Parfums Christian Dior, the cosmetics and fragrance lines of Christian Dior SA. Christian Dior, the legendary 20th century luxury fashion designer, founded his couture company Christian Dior SA in 1946, and went on to inaugurate Parfums Christian Dior within a year with the launch in 1947 of Miss Dior, its first fragrance. 

Coco Mademoiselle, a women's fragrance, is part of the Chanel perfume line aimed at younger Chanel fans that was introduced in 2001.

The scent was created by Jacques Polge, who has been the “nose” or chief perfumer of Chanel since 1978.

Armani Code for Women launched by Armani Cosmetics in 2006 is evidently a women’s scent. The heart of Armani Code for Women perfume is orange blossom; the scent is extracted from two kinds of orange peel, of which one is sourced in the Ivory Coast and the other in Italy.

Elle is a women’s fragrance from Yves Saint Laurent that was conceived to draw younger consumers to the YSL brand. The fragrance was launched in 2007. Its creators, perfumers Olivier Cresp and Jacques Cavallier received a brief to design something fresh for a modern city girl; female, but with “a touch of the male.”