The Greeks and Romans kept their perfumes in earthenware or terracotta pots.
Catherine de Medici, a great lover of love potions and deadly poisons, collected small bottles made of gold and precious stones.
And it is only at the end of the 19th century that glass will prevail with Baccarat and then René Lalique, giving body to the impalpable scents of the time in sublime creations for Houbigant, Molinard, Worth or François Coty.
The latter, father of modern perfumery, even considered that a "
perfume can be seen as much as it is felt, it is an object before being a scent."
".
Far from the bottle escalation of the 1920s, Gabrielle Chanel decided, exactly 100 years ago, to present her N ° 5 in a laboratory bottle.
A small aesthetic revolution.
The pure silhouette of N ° 5 with octagonal cap invents a new aesthetic grammar.
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Even today, this minimalism imposes its graphic play in
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